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The Internet was going to be an instrument for elevating discourse. Twitter turned it into the opposite with the 140 character limitation.
by ocschwar 10y ago
The Internet was going to be an instrument for elevating discourse.
Twitter turned it into the opposite with the 140 character limitation.
- Zikes 10y agoTwitter is not the Internet.
- redblacktree 10y agoIn fact, we're on the internet now, on a website that serves as an instrument for elevating discourse with its community standards!
- ocschwar 10y agoA web site whose influence is over a much smaller portion of the public.
- redblacktree 10y agohttps://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/ https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/ has impeccable standards and more than half a million subscribers, just as one other example.
- mxuribe 10y ago@ocschwar probably meant that twitter - being a single though admittedly big actor on the internet - didn't help in raising the level of discussion on the internet...At least that's what i interpreted.
- justinlardinois 10y agoWho at any point in the development of the internet ever expressed a goal to elevate discourse?