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For me twitter solve a very practical problem. I like to read stuff from everywhere, from substacks to YouTube channel to regular old mainstream media. But not

For me twitter solve a very practical problem. I like to read stuff from everywhere, from substacks to YouTube channel to regular old mainstream media. But not everything they produce is of interest to me so I need a way to filter and get to read only relevant stuff. Twitter is my tool to do that. For example I follow a person that once a week write a post like “top 10 things that happened the week in china”. That is as much as I need to know about that. I follow 3-4 person that talk about the war in Ukraine. Sometime they post articles from MSM, sometimes translate stuff from telegram channels, sometimes they debunk some propaganda found online. I wouldn’t be able to do all of this by myself. This used to be the job of newspapers but it works only if the newspaper line is the one that you like

Tao3300 4y ago
> twitter solve a very practical problem. I like to read stuff from everywhere, from substacks to YouTube channel to regular old mainstream media. But not everything they produce is of interest to me so I need a way to filter and get to read only relevant stuff. It's a terrible substitute for Google Reader.
- robobro 4y ago
  It's a good enough replacement for IRC.
- mrighele 4y ago
  I wouldn’t say terrible. In some thing is worse in others much better. For a number of reasons it is easier to find new account to follow, follow them for a while and unfollow if necessary. This makes my twitter account much more “fluid” than goggle reader was, allowing me to keep it more up to date and interesting. On the other side, twitter ha much more noise that you have to learn to ignore