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Because Twitter is one of the important way to get informed in near realtime on what's happening around the world, simply due to the size of it's user base. And

by nirui 5y ago

Because Twitter is one of the important way to get informed in near realtime on what's happening around the world, simply due to the size of it's user base. And this makes it useful ...before bots and mobs catches the wind too of course.

b112 5y ago
My parents grew up, just as people started to get TV in their homes. Mostly, when very very young, they only had radio. And as they matured, so did TV. Became larger, colour emerged, audio improved, and the wonder of viewing events live, in real time, from around the world was fascinating to them. Soon, cable TV, and eventually 24 hour news appeared. I watched the news morph from a 30 minute nightly summary, to a relentless repeat of the same news over, and over again. And talking heads, opinions relentlessly speed forth, by "experts" and "analysts", just droning on, hour after hour. All basically gossiping, rehashing the same info endlessly. You, instead, have twitter. You, are in the same trap. There is nothing of value there. No in depth news. No thoughtful information. Just a relentless spew of opinion, talking heads... Decades ago, magazines abounded. What does celebrity $x think of politics today? Or, what does the CEO of Ford, think about this and that? This is the level of most of Twitter, the rest being people working (eg, fully biased) to amass follower. Once gained, via fraud, or being trendy (same thing really), they then sell their output to the highest bidder. This can be political, or commercial. Twitter makes my parents addiction to 24 news, alway on at home when I visited, seem trivial in comparison. You have been tricked, had manipulated. There is nothing of value on twitter. Nothing. If something is important, it will only be a mess of tangled garbage on twitter. You know this. You already work against twitter's addictive, and useless properties, for you attempt to remake it into something sane, and useful. But you cannot. It is designed to prevent this, designed to pull you in to the absurdities. Get out. Follow what you secretly want. Abandon twitter completely.
- viraptor 5y ago
  > You, instead, have twitter. You, are in the same trap. > There is nothing of value there. No in depth news. No thoughtful information. I think you're not aware of how much in depth, very specific information, and thoughtful analysis your can find on Twitter. Sure, there's going to be lots of crap, but you don't have to watch it.
dageshi 5y ago
For the average person that information is pretty much useless, it's just another type of entertainment.
mensetmanusman 5y ago
The more real-time it is, the more likely it is misinformation.
apexalpha 5y ago
That's a generous way of describing anonymous 'rumours'.

by nirui 5y ago

b112 5y ago

My parents grew up, just as people started to get TV in their homes. Mostly, when very very young, they only had radio. And as they matured, so did TV. Became larger, colour emerged, audio improved, and the wonder of viewing events live, in real time, from around the world was fascinating to them. Soon, cable TV, and eventually 24 hour news appeared. I watched the news morph from a 30 minute nightly summary, to a relentless repeat of the same news over, and over again. And talking heads, opinions relentlessly speed forth, by "experts" and "analysts", just droning on, hour after hour. All basically gossiping, rehashing the same info endlessly. You, instead, have twitter. You, are in the same trap. There is nothing of value there. No in depth news. No thoughtful information. Just a relentless spew of opinion, talking heads... Decades ago, magazines abounded. What does celebrity $x think of politics today? Or, what does the CEO of Ford, think about this and that? This is the level of most of Twitter, the rest being people working (eg, fully biased) to amass follower. Once gained, via fraud, or being trendy (same thing really), they then sell their output to the highest bidder. This can be political, or commercial. Twitter makes my parents addiction to 24 news, alway on at home when I visited, seem trivial in comparison. You have been tricked, had manipulated. There is nothing of value on twitter. Nothing. If something is important, it will only be a mess of tangled garbage on twitter. You know this. You already work against twitter's addictive, and useless properties, for you attempt to remake it into something sane, and useful. But you cannot. It is designed to prevent this, designed to pull you in to the absurdities. Get out. Follow what you secretly want. Abandon twitter completely.

viraptor 5y ago
> You, instead, have twitter. You, are in the same trap. > There is nothing of value there. No in depth news. No thoughtful information. I think you're not aware of how much in depth, very specific information, and thoughtful analysis your can find on Twitter. Sure, there's going to be lots of crap, but you don't have to watch it.

dageshi 5y ago

For the average person that information is pretty much useless, it's just another type of entertainment.

mensetmanusman 5y ago

The more real-time it is, the more likely it is misinformation.

apexalpha 5y ago

That's a generous way of describing anonymous 'rumours'.