Is places like Mastodon, Twitter, and this Threads thing just places for people to just write some blurb?
Is places like Mastodon, Twitter, and this Threads thing just places for people to just write some blurb?
I have never understood the concept of Twitter and such, is it basically like Live Journal with a text limit ? How do the interactions even work ? Just people saying something unprompted and then people just talk?
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I'm upvoting you purely for describing Twitter as "Live Journal with a text limit". That is exactly what it is and with infinitely less privacy or conversational value.
Ahhh that makes a lot of sense okay! I just don't understand how businesses and establishments claim to say that without Twitter they don't get lifesaving information. What lifesaving information lives on Twitter ? Is this just an exaggeration? Something about weather alerts ? I get weather info just fine without twitter, like on live news articles on their respective websites
Oh, for that use case then Twitter is a bit different. Information on Twitter moves fast and you can get quick, bite-sized updates on a company or event (via tags) much quicker than most sites. The ease of sharing information made it very popular for things like announcing updates on website/app down times or catching up on election news for example.
Thank you !