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Yeah, during the 2020 election, I was often 48+ hours ahead of print news, and 24+ hours ahead of NPR and TV. I miss that bit, I dont miss most of twitter thou

by Aloha 3y ago

Yeah, during the 2020 election, I was often 48+ hours ahead of print news, and 24+ hours ahead of NPR and TV. I miss that bit, I dont miss most of twitter though.

SketchySeaBeast 3y ago
I found that the hard part was separating the signal from the noise. There was too much noise and too many conflicting narratives. Not that there wasn't any of that on TV, but with Twitter it was amplified and came at you so quickly.
- flkenosad 3y ago
  Twitter is where journalists find out what the different view points even are.
  - JohnFen 3y ago
    > Twitter is where journalists find out what the different view points even are. That's actually disturbing, since Twitter users are a unique demographic all by themselves. Twitter has never adequately represented the wider spectrum of viewpoints (and, from everything I hear, is worse at it now than ever before).
  - baud147258 3y ago
    or where the journalists go to find that one tweet with outrageous claims, to then spin in a full article on how "people believe X!"
- Aloha 3y ago
  Very very hard. You get better with it over time, and I'm reasonably good at reading people - much of it could be tossed out for just being absurd on its face.
Almondsetat 3y ago
And how did this improve your life? What actions did you take knowing that information with 1-2 days of advance that you wouldn't have otherwise?
- politelemon 3y ago
  I was able to have anxiety or outrage, depending on the misleading information being propagated, ahead of everyone else.
  - coldpie 3y ago
    Yeah. I closed my account because of Musk's politics, but the reality is I should've left years ago. Life is so much better without all that dragging me down.
- Aloha 3y ago
  It was reassuring in a way, and I was able to reassure my friends - they saw things moving in a particular way, but I was often able to see a counter trend moving another direction before they could.
  - Johnny555 3y ago
    Is that because you had better information or because the platform knew your interests and fed you information to reinforce what you thought was happening?
    - Aloha 3y ago
      I used lists exclusively, which presented a non-optimized reverse order (most recent first) timeline.
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savanaly 3y ago
But what even was the point of being ahead?
- masklinn 3y ago
  Following the right accounts you could actually get nuanced background on an issue popping up, with a carefully tended feed it was like putting rocket boots on the truth so it could stay within sight of the lies.
- Aloha 3y ago
  I was able to reassure my friends - they saw things moving in a particular way, but I was often able to see a counter trend moving another direction before they could.
Yizahi 3y ago
I see this line repeated year after year, but is there any truth to it? Assuming at Twitter someone post the news at T+1 second as they happen, because you can't report news before they actually happened (unless your newspaper is called Tomorrow). The question then - are "old" newspapers really reporting major news with 24 hour delay (online)? Does ANY newspaper work with such delay? I honestly don't remember a single case when something big happens in the world today, I go to the "old" news site the same day and that event is not reported. Maybe some obscure regional politic events are reported with delay (even that is debatable), but why would you want some urgent news about obscure regional stuff? And how would a person understand that it is a real event and not a fake posted on twitter for some outrage?
- Aloha 3y ago
  I was following some very very very inside the beltway political shit, so its not wrong in this case. You could drill down into a bunch of specific areas and have a similar effect all over, but trying to do that in too many places leads to a drinking the firehose feeling.

by Aloha 3y ago

Yeah, during the 2020 election, I was often 48+ hours ahead of print news, and 24+ hours ahead of NPR and TV. I miss that bit, I dont miss most of twitter though.

SketchySeaBeast 3y ago

I found that the hard part was separating the signal from the noise. There was too much noise and too many conflicting narratives. Not that there wasn't any of that on TV, but with Twitter it was amplified and came at you so quickly.

flkenosad 3y ago
Twitter is where journalists find out what the different view points even are.
- JohnFen 3y ago
  > Twitter is where journalists find out what the different view points even are. That's actually disturbing, since Twitter users are a unique demographic all by themselves. Twitter has never adequately represented the wider spectrum of viewpoints (and, from everything I hear, is worse at it now than ever before).
- baud147258 3y ago
  or where the journalists go to find that one tweet with outrageous claims, to then spin in a full article on how "people believe X!"
Aloha 3y ago
Very very hard. You get better with it over time, and I'm reasonably good at reading people - much of it could be tossed out for just being absurd on its face.

Almondsetat 3y ago

And how did this improve your life? What actions did you take knowing that information with 1-2 days of advance that you wouldn't have otherwise?

politelemon 3y ago
I was able to have anxiety or outrage, depending on the misleading information being propagated, ahead of everyone else.
- coldpie 3y ago
  Yeah. I closed my account because of Musk's politics, but the reality is I should've left years ago. Life is so much better without all that dragging me down.
Aloha 3y ago
It was reassuring in a way, and I was able to reassure my friends - they saw things moving in a particular way, but I was often able to see a counter trend moving another direction before they could.
- Johnny555 3y ago
  Is that because you had better information or because the platform knew your interests and fed you information to reinforce what you thought was happening?
  - Aloha 3y ago
    I used lists exclusively, which presented a non-optimized reverse order (most recent first) timeline.

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savanaly 3y ago

But what even was the point of being ahead?

masklinn 3y ago
Following the right accounts you could actually get nuanced background on an issue popping up, with a carefully tended feed it was like putting rocket boots on the truth so it could stay within sight of the lies.
Aloha 3y ago
I was able to reassure my friends - they saw things moving in a particular way, but I was often able to see a counter trend moving another direction before they could.

Yizahi 3y ago

I see this line repeated year after year, but is there any truth to it? Assuming at Twitter someone post the news at T+1 second as they happen, because you can't report news before they actually happened (unless your newspaper is called Tomorrow). The question then - are "old" newspapers really reporting major news with 24 hour delay (online)? Does ANY newspaper work with such delay? I honestly don't remember a single case when something big happens in the world today, I go to the "old" news site the same day and that event is not reported. Maybe some obscure regional politic events are reported with delay (even that is debatable), but why would you want some urgent news about obscure regional stuff? And how would a person understand that it is a real event and not a fake posted on twitter for some outrage?

Aloha 3y ago
I was following some very very very inside the beltway political shit, so its not wrong in this case. You could drill down into a bunch of specific areas and have a similar effect all over, but trying to do that in too many places leads to a drinking the firehose feeling.