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>Twitter's audience is narrow: Most of the people I know (across countries, religions, genders, professions) do not have a Twitter account. most of the people
by hi5eyes 6y ago
>Twitter's audience is narrow: Most of the people I know (across countries, religions, genders, professions) do not have a Twitter account.
most of the people in media are on twitter 247, talking heads take from twitter discourse and export that to other media
- marcus_holmes 6y agoTwitter has a really high membership ratio in journalism and politics - pretty much every professional journalist and politician is very active. Whether this is a good thing for society is a different question. (I'd argue that it's not and that Twitter should be closed down. But I know that's an unpopular opinion)
- oooooooooooow 6y agoI reckon it's not as unpopular as you might think.
- afiori 6y agoTwitter is very popular among influential people
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- owl57 6y agoTwitter should be closed down It probably can't be closed down in a way that's not even worse than current situation. Even if there's no coercion and management just has the revelation and decides to close shop, some (probably Chinese-owned) clone will probably reach the same position soon, what's the win?
- jeresuikkila 6y agoDoes your closing down suggestion only apply to Twitter or also other social media platforms? What would the effect be?
- rstupek 6y agoI think the other social media platforms don't have as much of a mega phone effect that twitter does? Twitter posts by default can be seen by the world which differs from other social media sites?
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- SAI_Peregrinus 6y agoI think most other social media sites are public by default. Reddit, most forums, Youtube, TikTok, HN, etc.
- marcus_holmes 6y agoI don't know why Twitter is the one they all chose. It's unique in restricting the size of posts, maybe that's it? I don't know what the effect would be. I don't think we can roll the clock back to 1995. But equally given the current situation in the USA I don't think the status quo is sustainable. If you forced me to give an answer, then I think there should be a 1-hour delay on all tweets. It's the immediacy of the thing that gives it the power. If we just slowed it down then I think it would work better, because human nature.
- nine_k 6y agoTwitter is really a broadcast medium, more geared towards posting in real time and reposting, and less towards a discussion. It also limits the size of a tweet, making them perfectly quotable, and discouraging nuance and detail, so a juicy bon mot is basically the only winning genre on Twitter. No wonder any public person, any politician, any celebrity may find out that Twitter is a must, if they want to keep and grow their fame / celebrity / notoriety.
- petre 6y agoTwitter is the digital equivalent of gossip: truncated content that gets virally shared. Unlike gossip it's truncated from the onset, as opposed to at every reshare. Any kind of facts are then corrupted by comments.