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Not at all. Twitter gave everyone access to bigger microphones, and one of the main benefits of this went to asshats who would have ordinarily been booed off th
by coffeefirst 6y ago
Not at all. Twitter gave everyone access to bigger microphones, and one of the main benefits of this went to asshats who would have ordinarily been booed off the stage.
The fact that these people exist isn’t new. They’re ability to do what they do at scale and to such a large audience is.
- netsharc 6y agoThe instant nature and character limit of Twitter is what made it so toxic, I think. So now anyone can broadcast any dumb thought they have. If you were a blogger, you'd think about your thought more before sitting down and writing a long-ish essay about it (maybe you even learn as you write that your thought is wrong, incendieary, etc), but with Twitter... In theory Facebook also offers this instant thing, but the idea with Facebook was, it would be limited to your friends/network...
- coffeefirst 6y agoAgreed. Those little bits of friction, whether it's needing to put the time into a blog and build an audience for it, or having some natural limits on reach, really matter.