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As a massive collection of humans sending messages to each other and broadcasting across the board, it has a lot of "stuff" to offer. Exactly what this "stuff"
by SllX 9y ago
As a massive collection of humans sending messages to each other and broadcasting across the board, it has a lot of "stuff" to offer.
Exactly what this "stuff" is comes down largely to your own ability to curate a decent list of providers of "stuff". This doesn't necessarily differentiate it from any other large provider of "stuff" hosting enormous groups of humans messaging each other and broadcasting "stuff", e.g. reddit, but it is still host to certain groups of humans for which Twitter is their platform of choice to air this "stuff" out.
Product announcements, celebrities, certain subsets of certain industries (e.g. I used to follow a curated collection of Mac indie developers back when I was 15 and wanted to be one), activists, customer support reps, politicians, whatever, if you can think of it, you can probably find it has a place somewhere on Twitter and that is what makes Twitter valuable to you. It might be entertainment value, knowledge, news, lifehacks or whatever, and maybe for you personally you have much better sources for all of that, but Twitter just happens to be the place others get some or all of this from.
Then there are the people that treat it like a diary, or journal, or a place to vent. For them, Twitter isn't for following a curated collection of people, for them Twitter is just a place to talk. You know, a messaging platform.
Full disclosure: haven't personally used Twitter in years other than as a file transfer host from a particular video game console lacking decent file transfer options. It is valuable to other people, I just prefer my "stuff" in a different format than what Twitter provides.