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Well there isn’t any argument for why Twitter was at ”its best” during that hour. It is just a blogspot surfing the wave of the meme that Twitter without verifi
by soneca 6y ago
Well there isn’t any argument for why Twitter was at ”its best” during that hour. It is just a blogspot surfing the wave of the meme that Twitter without verified accounts is better. It is a joke that reflects an insatisfaction with social media (and maybe the world), only that.
By this time, the trick is getting old: get a topic that is trending on Twitter, write a few paragraphs giving some context using some humorous language and then print a selection of the funniest/cleverest tweets on topic. That’s it.
Why HN crowd give it the front page? I believe because HN crowd shares this zeitgeist that distrusts so called “experts”. It is a vote that we dislike a culture that is steered by influencers and people trying to earn more audience (the currency of this time).
I agree with the sentiment, but the article is pretty empty about it, just a meme retweet basically.
- pfraze 6y agoCompletely agree. The term "experts" in that context frustrates me -- and I think you're highlighting this with "so called" -- because I want experts who actually fulfill that role responsibly. The only expertise which Twitter surfaces is "Twitter Expertise" and the other talents are incidental. We don't want to be steered around by this, so how do we create mass-media that gives us the right properties, and what are those right properties in the first place?
- efreak 6y agoThe 'mass' in mass media is not one of the properties. The only mass media you need is a couple newspapers.