> But what do you think? Do you think there's any realistic alternative to Twitter as the world's "town square"? Nope. So long as celebrities and politicians

> But what do you think? Do you think there's any realistic alternative to Twitter as the world's "town square"? Nope. So long as celebrities and politicians are on it the journalists will keep mining it for cheap clicks - it has replaced 'man on the street says' type of low quality reporting. Whether at the BBC, Fox or CNN people sitting around doom scrolling in those offices are ordinary neophytes for whom FB/Twitter/Reddit essentially are the entire internet - regardless of political leanings every single news outlet weaves whatever narrative they want from it as there's always a Joe Schmoe (real or bot) with 4 followers to quote into 'people on twitter are saying X'. It really doesn't matter if somebody builds a better twitter with more intelligent and useful discussions as that won't be useful fodder for media.