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Twitter is about following tiny businesses, imho. Youtubers, independent journalists, local shops, local media, local politicians. It's RSS for z-list interne
by Pxtl 8y ago
Twitter is about following tiny businesses, imho. Youtubers, independent journalists, local shops, local media, local politicians. It's RSS for z-list internet famous people.
Although it pretends that replies are equivalent to top-level tweets, they're not really. It's just that there's a reply thread attach to everything.
Basically, CNN will tell you what your head of state did. Your regional media will tell you what your legislative representative did if it was newsworthy.
Twitter lets you keep tabs on your city councilman.
- colllectorof 8y agoIf the only way to watch local businesses is to join a global centralized network that snagged 335 million international users, something somewhere is really broken.
- Pxtl 8y agoNot the only way, but the best way.
- _justpassingby_ 8y agoNot necessarily. It's not outrageous for a large system to incorporate different scopes, even simultaneously. The architecture of the internet itself is a good example of that.