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I continue to see Twitter as an invaluable real time news source. It often seems to have more direct information on breaking topics than other mediums. I often
by stevebmark 5y ago
I continue to see Twitter as an invaluable real time news source. It often seems to have more direct information on breaking topics than other mediums. I often discover news on Twitter well before seeing it on other platforms.
- camhart 5y agoLast summer Twitter alerted me to wild fire evacuations for my area (in Western Washington) hours before traditional channels reached me.
- systemvoltage 5y agoAgree, but also keeps feeding me extreme bias and straight up nonsense. Let’s not forget its destructive aspects as well.
- gzer0 5y agoYou can mitigate this, at least partially, if you go into your account settings and deselect “show me personalized content and ads”; this paired with ublock origin can do wonders.