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Every once in a while I'll think, maybe Twitter isn't really the garbage dumpster fire I think it is, and I'll go try to find some useful information via Google
by photochemsyn 4y ago
Every once in a while I'll think, maybe Twitter isn't really the garbage dumpster fire I think it is, and I'll go try to find some useful information via Google searches. Just tried it for something I'm interested in, i.e.
site:twitter.com financialization of the economy
Yup, still a useless pile of garbage, full of one-liners, silly memes, links to corporate media articles that aren't worth reading because you already know what PR message they'll be putting out, etc. Best thing that could happen would be for Musk to buy it and then just pull the plug, although that seems fairly unlikely.
- least 4y agoI think there's valid criticisms of Twitter; the medium encourages a writing style that I find pretty cringe-worthy a lot of the time. It does encourage hot takes and isn't a very good place for nuanced discussion of charged topics. It is, like all social media platforms, a contributor to polarization in all sorts of topics, some that matter more than others. The value in Twitter depends heavily on how you curate your feed, though. If you fill it with thoughtful people that are experts in the fields you're interested, it can be quite enlightening. If you fill it with people who mostly post memes, you'll get memes. If you fill it with pundits, you'll get bite-sized takes. You get to choose that.