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Twitter is useful to break "news" of public relevance: be it a natural disaster, political news, celeb news etc. Personal news like new job, birth, marriage, e
by noir-york 10y ago
Twitter is useful to break "news" of public relevance: be it a natural disaster, political news, celeb news etc.
Personal news like new job, birth, marriage, etc already has a network: FBK.
> the central gathering place for journalism.
An unmoderated place of journalism.
The difficulty lies in the interesting development of news outlets increasingly moderating their boards or disabling them completely for certain posts to combat abuse by trolls, racists, etc, the very problem Twitter has not been seen to do much to counter.
- vertex-four 10y agoThe difficulty, of course, is reducing the amount of abuse against people without reducing the amount of discourse. Twitter is having serious issues figuring that out.