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It would be an interesting social experiment to see what happens if twitter turned itself off worldwide for a week.
by secondcoming 6y ago
It would be an interesting social experiment to see what happens if twitter turned itself off worldwide for a week.
- kyleblarson 6y agoThe tiny fraction of the populous who spend hours a day on Twitter might have panic attacks, the rest of us who realize that Twitter (and social media in general) is a cesspool of toxicity and who never use it would carry on like normal.
- jsonne 6y agoThe bigger effect is that many journalists get their scoops from Twitter. The legacy media would have a difficult time.
- mothsonasloth 6y agoGood, they can go back to more traditional methods, of paying professional reporters to be in their local areas for those scoops. Rather than scrape what some person tweeted.
- trident5000 6y agoId like that to be true but Twitter has 400 million users which is a large chunk of the developed world.
- andai 6y agoA sad week for the nsfw art community.
- sergiotapia 6y agoThe VAST majority of twitter posts are created by a tiny percentage of people.
- Reedx 6y agoIt's a tiny fraction, but they punch far above their weight. The discourse from there bubbles up to the news media and the entire culture.
- chopin24 6y agoPerhaps there's a middle way, something I've been experimenting with myself personally when it comes to digital devices: A digital Sabbath. Don't call it that of course, since it has religious connotation, but instead just... Turn Twitter off 1 day a week. Doesn't even have to be the weekend. Just close up shop on Tuesdays, give everyone a break. We long ago learned that you can't be 'on' 24/7, yet we let ourselves fall into it with digital media/social networks.
- rvz 6y agoThen the world’s media companies would have to report actual “news”. Which is boring to them and essentially doesn’t attract the extra eyeballs they need to make enough revenue.