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Twitter is where people who are or will be powerful, influential, or impactful get their information, form their opinions, and often debate really important top
by barnabee 5y ago
Twitter is where people who are or will be powerful, influential, or impactful get their information, form their opinions, and often debate really important topics.
So I’d agree it’s undervalued in terms of utility if it’s not priced an order of magnitude or more higher than Snap.
Whether that value can or should be captured as profit or is a public good, implying Twitter should operate more like a utility or non-profit is another question…
- UncleMeat 5y agoI don’t believe I have ever once seen a “debate on really important topics” on Twitter. And that’s even including the unusually large number of professors I follow.
- garbagetime 5y agoProfessors must be among the least likely to have such discussions on Twitter.
- UncleMeat 5y agoWell then point me at all of this "debate on really important topics."
- garbagetime 5y agoI can point you toward endless debate by the leaders in my field about topics that are really important in my field, but my field is not itself very important. Someone else will have to point you to the debate on really important topics.
- andbberger 5y agotransit twitter
- adwn 5y ago> Twitter is where people who are or will be powerful, influential, or impactful get their information, form their opinions, and often debate really important topics. Anecdotal counter point: I'll be powerful and influential one day, and I'm not using Twitter at all. On a more serious note, I haven't seen any evidence for the claim that powerful people form their opinions from information on Twitter.
- chii 5y ago> I'll be powerful and influential one day, and I'm not using Twitter at all. how would you know you won't be using twitter when you do become powerful?
- mike00632 5y agoIf you think that 280 characters is thorough intellectual discourse then you're spending too much time on Twitter.
- robonerd 5y agoTwitter is where the powerful, influential and impactful people of the world do their best to demystify and demean themselves.