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The year Twitter died: a special series from The Verge
(www.theverge.com)
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.
They write so many articles on Twitter it will never die
I think they've said that Twitter and musk stories get a lot of traffic.
How about murdered
so long and you will not be missed
In my personal case I will not miss it.. go fuck yourself twitter rot in hell.
Entertain the Elk on the YouTube does a great series on this format.
Hey everyone! It's the yearly "Twitter is dead" article.
I love how people are now saying Twitter sucks now. But the problem is Twitter always sucks. Yes even under Jack Dorsey it sucked.
this post was submitted on 12 Dec 2023
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