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Twitter is where the world goes today to talk about things that matter (and obviously a lot of things that don’t). There may be something else that takes its pl
by macintux 4y ago
Twitter is where the world goes today to talk about things that matter (and obviously a lot of things that don’t). There may be something else that takes its place in the future but today it matters what happens to it.
- SpicyLemonZest 4y agoPeople talk about things that matter in a wide variety of places. Twitter matters to the people and communities who are on it, of course, and it's a trendy software company which faces a lot of interesting and newsworthy challenges. But it's hard for me to see a story where some terrible Twitter policy change directly affects the lives of those of us who aren't on it.
- spritefs 4y ago> Twitter is where the world goes today That's a pretty twitter-centric view of things See this https://www.statista.com/statistics/272014/global-social-networks-ranked-by-number-of-users/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/272014/global-social-net... I have no clue where the hell people get this "public square" analogy from because the numbers don't back it
- xu_ituairo 4y agoIt might be because most of the social platforms on that list don’t really fit the mould of a town square in my eyes. WhatsApp, YouTube, Snapchat, FB, FB messenger and others I recognise aren’t shaped in ways that look like public debate and are generally more siloed or are creator platforms. Twitter seems to me more like an open free-for-all where any text can get amplified and publicly interacted with and very little is behind private accounts/groups/silos and anyone can easily contribute.