IMO the real evil of Twitter is that it went mainstream and is flawed. Flawed notably in the sense that volume defeats truth and discourse. 100k tweets is great

IMO the real evil of Twitter is that it went mainstream and is flawed. Flawed notably in the sense that volume defeats truth and discourse. 100k tweets is greater than the truth, meanwhile the 100k tweets is cheap and can be automated. Basically, Twitter makes astroturfing easy, and it makes it easy to be loud. After having gone mainstream, it is exploited through these flaws. So twitter helped to drown out these older communication channels, and replaced it with a field of very loud astroturf. To this extent I think Jack is correct regarding the centralization, but rose colored glasses on how twitter bots and good ol internet trolling have ruined discourse. (Trolling in the sense of asymmetric information warfare. I win when I can put out more falsehoods or misleading statements a magnitude faster than you can to refute them. While giving equal voice to all is noble, that is not twitter, and not really the internet anymore for some time now.. instead of the truth being found and debated, it is instead now drowned)