{"id":1015,"date":"2010-09-07T18:31:22","date_gmt":"2010-09-07T17:31:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/t-machine.org\/?p=1015"},"modified":"2010-09-07T18:31:40","modified_gmt":"2010-09-07T17:31:40","slug":"linkedin-more-popular-than-twitter-according-to-linkedin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/2010\/09\/07\/linkedin-more-popular-than-twitter-according-to-linkedin\/","title":{"rendered":"LinkedIn more popular than Twitter (according to LinkedIn?)"},"content":{"rendered":"

When I log into LinkedIn, I now receive 3 pages of spam. That spam is “every tweet by every person I’ve ever met”.<\/p>\n

Somewhere, buried inside the avalanche of spam, are a few genuine LinkedIn messages. e.g. today I saw that a friend had moved to a new company – important, useful information.<\/p>\n

Support: why would you want to refuse our spam?<\/h4>\n

I asked the LinkedIn customer support folks how to disable the spam. Their response:<\/p>\n

\nYou can “only hide the member’s Twitter updates [if you] also [hide all] their LinkedIn updates”.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

i.e. your choices are:<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. Get spam\n
  2. Get nothing\n<\/ol>\n

    Hmm. Think about the people with tens of thousands of connections on linkedin. Their linkedin home pages must be absurdly high spam-to-signal ratio.<\/p>\n

    LinkedIn’s management: Twitter? WTF is Twitter?<\/h4>\n

    LinkedIn’s CTO \/ lead architect \/ whoever authorized this stupid setup apparently “forgot” that the main feature of Twitter is it *allows* you to choose the people you receive tweets from.<\/p>\n

    (or, more likely, they’ve never used Twitter – it’s just a buzzword they’d heard of from a VC)<\/p>\n

    LinkedIn removes that choice. It simply forces everything on you. No filtering. No choices. Nothing. As a user, you exist to be spammed.<\/p>\n

    As a user, you exist to consume LinkedIn’s adverts, and nothing else. The site is – it would seem – not intended to be useful.<\/p>\n

    RIP LinkedIn.com<\/h4>\n

    For a business to sink to such a low level of utility, and for the management to achieve such a high level of ignorance about the market, suggests to me that LI is moving rapidly towards implosion. I don’t believe it will still be with us two years from now. And that’s rather tragic, given how valuable it used to be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    When I log into LinkedIn, I now receive 3 pages of spam. That spam is “every tweet by every person I’ve ever met”. Somewhere, buried inside the avalanche of spam, are a few genuine LinkedIn messages. e.g. today I saw that a friend had moved to a new company – important, useful information. Support: why […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,46,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}