The problems with social media

Reza Rahman: I rely on social media a bit, but it's really difficult in some senses because some people's Twitter feeds are just product marketing or them trying to sell something. An agenda is very obvious from their Twitter streams and it's kind of annoying to follow people like that.

You'll have the same issues if you try to stay up to date with politics through Twitter. To anyone trying to do that, I wish you luck! You can get very one-sided views. It's really difficult to get a clear picture from social media and that's why you need to rely on the free press to some extent. That's true of tech as well.

I do read DZone and InfoQ. I just scan the headlines. If there's something I need to know about, then I set aside some time to go and investigate it. Knative is one of those things. I wasn't aware of it maybe even a few months ago.

I would say that about 20% of my research is on social...