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Society treated twitter as something more, and twitter adapted as it grew. Despite the recent disruptive events, society still treats twitter as a public squar
by bloopernova 4y ago
Society treated twitter as something more, and twitter adapted as it grew.
Despite the recent disruptive events, society still treats twitter as a public square. Politicians, celebrities, charities, and governments all make announcements there. So many updates on the russian invasion of Ukraine have been put on twitter but not facebook or instagram.
My personal opinion is that twitter is a public square. I don't know what that means legally, because it is an international public square with all the judicial/governmental chaos that implies. I guess an alternative would be to have "twitter is a USA public square" kind of language on the site, but that may well dampen any participation from non-US people.
- whywhywhywhy 4y ago>Society treated twitter as something more No, journalists did. Society at large doesn’t even use Twitter. Their own stats prove this.
- slimebot80 4y agoWell Elon is very, very serious about "journalists" on his site. So this argument gets weird really, really quick.
- whywhywhywhy 4y agoI mean I think we can all read between the lines with why he’s interested in it.