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I stopped using Twitter after the election. The inability to express complex, nuanced, thorough ideas and responses, combined with its popularity (or at least,
by russellbeattie 9y ago
I stopped using Twitter after the election. The inability to express complex, nuanced, thorough ideas and responses, combined with its popularity (or at least, mass media influence), directly lead to Trump's election. The character limit, which I had perceived as merely an inconvenience for years, is actually a fundamental flaw which enabled a demagogue like him to succeed, and I refuse to participate in that stupidity any more. If Ev really wants to make amends, he should get Twitter to immediately expand the character limit to take away Trump's excuse for short, inflammatory posts, forcing him to try to actually put together coherent, intelligent sentences that express fully thought out ideas.
- formula_ninguna 9y agoI was thinking about stopping using Twitter but then realized that I'd never begun using it.