@jeremycherfas I agree that the main thing that Twitter and Facebook are good for are marketing, but I disagree that my example is an example of marketing.
Sending out a tweet when a podcast starts live streaming or when a new episode is posted makes sense. It helps a lot of people noticing. But telling the listeners of the show that the best way to contact the hosts is via Twitter seems less true. e-mail, a Slack channel or subreddit would work just as well.
I think that especially if a more or less recurring segment on a show is complaining about how twitter is a toxic hell stew that more or less enabled Donald Trump, a person that the hosts paints out to be more or less Lucifer himself, to get elected as POTUS then the hosts really, really should reconsider whether they want to funnel more communication through twitter and thereby helping the service continue on.
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johnjohnston
19 november, 2017 11:54@MrHenko I am finding the same, the episode away in the city was particularly poor.
MrHenko
19 november, 2017 12:27@johnjohnston I haven’t gotten to that episode yet. Finished #5 (Dig Dug) two days ago.
So what do you think, is it actually worse than season one or was it just a novelty that only worked once?
johnjohnston
19 november, 2017 18:01@MrHenko A bit of both, I though ep 6 showed some improvement a least from the excitement pov, but 7 was disappointing: plot a bit silly & characters uninteresting. The children are older & perhaps this makes you expect better acting. I am still going to finish it next weekend.
MrHenko
20 november, 2017 12:08@johnjohnston I’m looking forward to ep 6 in that case.
The acting of the kids don’t bother me but they don’t impress me like they did in the first season either. Especially Eleven was really good the first season.
I’ll keep watching it as well. I’ve been looking forward to season two for too long to abandon it now. :)
johnjohnston
20 november, 2017 18:17@MrHenko I think Eleven has more to do this season which shows the acting up a bit.
MrHenko
21 november, 2017 06:35@johnjohnston This showing the acting up mean a good thing or a bad thing? (Sorry, haven’t heard that phrase before.)
johnjohnston
21 november, 2017 06:49@MrHenko sorry, I meant that the new season is asking a lot more from the actor playing Eleven. She has to do a bit more than in season one. In season 1 her look did a lot.
MrHenko
22 november, 2017 07:30@johnjohnston No need to apologize. And you are probably right regarding Eleven. Haven’t seen anymore episodes yet but I might get around to it tonight.