> Serious question: did anything good come out of paying attention to Twitter? Like, ever? There is no doubt that Twitter dramatically changed public dialog. I

> Serious question: did anything good come out of paying attention to Twitter? Like, ever? There is no doubt that Twitter dramatically changed public dialog. It was/is revolutionary. Whether this revolution was a net positive or negative remains to be seen. I'm highly doubtful. I actually believe that, despite the benefits, the net effect on public dialogue will be catastrophic. The overall attention span of people seems to have been limited to 282 characters, with a lifetime of perhaps 48 hours or less. The argument that rises to the top is rarely the intellectually most valuable one, not that it would live on for more than a day or two anyway. Instead it's just the best punch line, one-uppance, or outrage fodder de jour. Ironically, the best example of this deevolution IMO was Kara Swisher's interview of Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, which was just a train wreck no one could follow [1]. [1] https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2019/02/its-impossible-follow-conversation-twitter/582907/ https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2019/02/its-i...