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Prediction: people will quit Twitter and realize that it was a net negative in their life and not bother replacing it and be better off.
by javajosh 3y ago
Prediction: people will quit Twitter and realize that it was a net negative in their life and not bother replacing it and be better off.
- chii 3y agoHow many times have the death of twitter been predicted?
- moonterrace 3y agoWay too many for my interest, and yet it lives.
- mcphage 3y agoIt lives, but it sure ain’t living well.
- facia 3y ago[dead]
- slig 3y agoI'm sure this time it won't survive the weekend.
- einaros 3y agoI've never (within otherwise normal times) been more stressed out and miserable than during periods when I've tried to interact systematically with and through Twitter.
- theshrike79 3y agoThe error is thinking that Twitter is a place for discourse. It's a place where you go see what celebrities (of any field, programming counts) are promoting and maybe follow a few interesting people who use Twitter as a medium for their writing for some reason. It's not a place where you can change anyone's opinion and if you think that you'll have a bad time.
- javajosh 3y agoI agree. And yet many people in positions of power look at twitter as a kind of real-time polling tool. They look at twitter reactions and think they know what people in general are feeling and doing. Then they make real decisions based on this false belief. And they do this because they are starved for information of this kind, and even though it's terrible, twitter is the only signal they have. This desire to shape public discourse, and the decisions of the powerful, are the real stakes that drive twitter gladiators. You're right though, it's not discourse - it's "zealous advocacy" as interpreted by a peurile and distracted public.
- theironhammer 3y agoExactly this. Twitter is not all bad. This advice I concur is one of the useful utilities of Twitter.
- einaros 3y agoSure. That's not really my issue though. I got a few thousand followers, in batches, after random press coverage through the years, but never had much of anything I wanted to share. Trying to communicate anything, to build further following, was stressful, unfruitful and ultimately meaningless.
- hackerlight 3y agoI read a while ago that people use apps like Twitter because it makes them miserable. There's a part of your brain that causes you to seek out content that makes you angry and upset. Having said that, I'm sure Threads will have enough content to keep us miserable and therefore hooked.