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twitter is only important if your stuck in the bubble of twitter people. Tons of people dont use twitter, let alone even write on there. to get even like 1000 r
by tayo42 4y ago
twitter is only important if your stuck in the bubble of twitter people. Tons of people dont use twitter, let alone even write on there. to get even like 1000 replies is still an insignificant amount, even though it feels like a lot. there are 300million people in just the US. thinking twitter replies are meaningful or represent enough people to have discourse is disconnected from the real world.
- Gabriel_Martin 4y agoFor people who needed visibility and access to a platform it's actually a quite important tool. I'm not talking about the frivolous uses.
- tayo42 4y agoinstagram seems to have much better reach then twitter could. throw away updates are popular with stories. i see more people putting effort into instagram then twitter. some dont even have twitter accounts
- fzeroracer 4y agoThis is more disconnected from the real world than Twitter, because you're focusing solely on a US-centric viewpoint. There are plenty of other places in the world where Twitter has been a core piece of communication.
- tayo42 4y agoyou want me to just take your word for that? or are you just going to point to arab spring or something? twitter was only more popular and used in japan then the us. but use is overall down. facebook seemed to have penetrated a lot more then twitter around the world
- patrickmay 4y agoTwitter is useful for following authors and finding out when they have new books. Now I have to seriously consider GoodReads. shudder
- tayo42 4y agowhy wouldnt you just use their mailing list? ive tried this, to keep up todate with and theres so much uncontrollable noise anything important gets lost.
- EarlKing 4y agoBecause email has been so thoroughly decommoditized by Big Tech in the name of "fighting spam" that trying to receive email successfully feels like a trip to the roulette wheel?