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It was funny reading Kara Swisher keeping saying twitter is dying and is toxic and what not, while STILL doing all her first announcements on twitter, and using
by ryzvonusef 3y ago
It was funny reading Kara Swisher keeping saying twitter is dying and is toxic and what not, while STILL doing all her first announcements on twitter, and using twitter as a source.
same with Ashlee Vance (the other journo reporting on this) and all the main players (Sam/Greg/Ilya/Mira/Satya/whoever) also make their first announcement on twitter.
I don't know about the funding part of it, but there is no denying it, the news is still freshest on twitter. Twitter feels just as toxic for me as before, in fact I feel community notes has made it much better, imho.
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In some related news, I finally got bluesky invite (I don't have invite codes yet or I would share here)
and people there are complaining about... mastadon and how elitist it is...
that was an eye opener.
nice if you want some science-y updates but it's still lags behind twitter for news.
- metabagel 3y agoI don’t use Twitter any more, other than occasionally following links there (which open in the browser, because I deleted the app). Discoverability on Mastodon is abysmal. It was too much work for me. I tend to get my news from Substack now.
- ryzvonusef 3y agointeresting, substack doesn't sound like a platform for the freshest news, but for deep insights. Don't you feel out of date on substack? especially since things move so fast sometimes, like with this open-ai fiasco?
- metabagel 3y agoTwitter is incredibly uncivil. I don’t have the stomach for it.
- tayo42 3y agoDid being up to date really have an impact on your life? It's mostly just gossip.
- ryzvonusef 3y agoI understand what you are saying, but sometimes, news like this is perhaps the only excitement in our otherwise dull lives.
- hurryer 3y agoSkilled operators say what sounds most virtuous and do what benefits most. Especially when these two things are not the same.
- hadlock 3y agoTwitter isn't dying, but it hasn't grown measurably since 2015. Still sitting at about 300m active users.
- bagels 3y agoBluesky took long enough to invite me that I forgot what it even was when I got the email.