The year Twitter died: a special series from The Verge
The year Twitter died: a special series from The Verge
The platform was a news accelerator, a tool of mass harassment, and an infinite joke machine.
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nothing of value was lost
Strongly disagree
Twitter as a venue for influencers to yell at brands and for brands to make risque jokes and for people to have hot takes? Good riddance
Twitter as a venue to allow the people being directly impacted by oppressive regimes, ethnic cleansing, and natural disasters to speak directly to the world? That is very much something that will be missed. My hope is that that would migrate to Mastodon (which would have a lot of benefits) but there is nothing quite so ubiquitous and "simple" that still allows the people being erased by brutal regimes to have a voice.
Twitter as a venue to allow the people being directly impacted by oppressive regimes
Twitter has played a large role in supporting said regimes.
Yes. That is the nature of an open platform. If you can find a way to keep the bad people off while not preventing the good people from having a choice, the world would love to hear it.
Yep was a great way to reach politicians and people could hsve direct effect on companies. Because when people took their complaints to Twitter it got shit fixed quick.
Elon saw all this people joke but his goal from day one was to destroy the platform and render it useless for us small folk.
Because at one time it was a powerful tool we could of used to organize and get shit done.
You say this as if the entire world used Twitter.
Day to day? no
When shit hits the fan? The Arab Spring is probably the quintessential example. But https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter#Usage_2 and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter_usage are good reads to be aware. Rather than just, ironically, do a drive by hot take for the engagement.
Plenty of people were linked to it, sure, but that would be the same without Twitter, too. Twitter is not a new type of service nor is it unique. It’s a flavour.
I think you are stuck in your own bias.
Yes. If a different service had the same market share and the same base concept it would fulfill the same role.
But twitter is what fulfilled that role in this timeline. And, as many of us have been lamenting since the chudstain bought it, that is a very major loss.
The world is not and was not a better place with Twitter in it. Grow up.
People are generally stupid and easily influenced. Not sure if you’ve noticed but (“western”) society has pretty much taken a nose dive over the last couple of decades. Social media such as Twitter and Facebook are a big reason for that.
Personally, I think giving a voice to the voiceless is important and twitter's role in many of the protests listed in the wikipedia links I assume you ignored have been incredibly important. Especially as it gives a venue to convey information that news outlets might shy away from for a range of reasons.
If supporting civil disobedience and a way for people to rapidly communicate and coordinate searches in times of emergencies is childish then I hope to never "grow up"/