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Twitter as a platform is engineered to be pithy, immediate, and constantly engaging with as little forethought as possible. It's a machine for viral stupidity.
by peterwwillis 6y ago
Twitter as a platform is engineered to be pithy, immediate, and constantly engaging with as little forethought as possible. It's a machine for viral stupidity. You could call it a mis-communication tool.
I get why people like to use it, but people also like slowing down to stare at car crashes on the highway. Maybe it's not a good thing.
- SmokeyHamster 6y agoTwitter was originally intended as a way to post personal statuses. Short messages that are self-contained enough to require little elaboration. Only when people started using Twitter to have long-form political and philosophical conversations of controversial topics, things that inherently require more than 120 characters to properly communicate, did it devolve into a mis-communication tool.