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Using Twitter as the focus of a post talking about quitting social media seems like such an odd choice to me. Why? Because Twitter still strikes me as such a n
by jmyeet 4y ago
Using Twitter as the focus of a post talking about quitting social media seems like such an odd choice to me.
Why? Because Twitter still strikes me as such a niche platform. It really is a bubble. I know there are people with >100M followers but most of those people just read their feed and that's it without ever writing a tweet.
it just seems way less interactive in general than say Snap is or FB/IG were. And if that's true then "quitting" a passive consumption platform just doesn't seem like a big deal than something you get invested in.
Maybe that's the point: people get caught up in this bubble and think it reflects reality.
Twitter in particular does seem to have a lot of bots. I really wonder if Twitter didn't screw themselves by allowing Elon to effectively renegotiate if Twitter can't prove the activity isn't all bots.
- guerrilla 4y agoMaybe that was just your bubble? The main thing I do on Twitter these days is joke with mutuals (and it used to be arguing with people.)
- d23 4y agoMy problem with Twitter is 1) it’s a huge time sink that trickles out dopamine, and 2) I rarely feel better about anything after sinking time into it.