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I think it's very reasonable to observe the past few years of American politics and feel that words on Twitter matter and are powerful, including in heat of the
by yafbum 4y ago
I think it's very reasonable to observe the past few years of American politics and feel that words on Twitter matter and are powerful, including in heat of the moment. Thankfully / sadly depending on your point of view we don't have a counterfactual world in which we'd have had to deal with more veiled calls to violence / dog whistles to disrupt the lawful transition of power.
That seems to be the opinion of everyone regardless of political opinion: if Twitter truly didn't matter, the people who got kicked out of it wouldn't make such a big deal out of it. The fact that they do mean that they agree it's an important platform.
- ch4s3 4y agoI'm just skeptical about the importance of twitter per se. > if Twitter truly didn't matter, the people who got kicked out of it wouldn't make such a big deal out of it I'm pretty sure that you can be trollish ass-hat and wrong at the same time. I think a lot of people tie up a lot of self worth in follower counts on twitter, but its illusory and probably not important. If you talk to any authors, musicians, or journalists with presences on twitter they'll all tell you that twitter doesn't drive traffic or sales its just a place to scream at people who mildly disagree with you. I think the greatest trick that twitter ever pulled was convincing people that twitter mattered outside of twitter.