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Interesting points. I agree that "fun" is a valuable thing, or can be anyways. Twitter isn't perfect but one thing if does is to give a voice to those who didn
by jmathai 13y ago
Interesting points. I agree that "fun" is a valuable thing, or can be anyways.
Twitter isn't perfect but one thing if does is to give a voice to those who didn't have one before. I'm thinking specifically of oppressive governments and the affected citizens or folks being harassed by law enforcement.
I hope that benefit outweighs the media's misuse of it.
- lmm 13y ago>Twitter isn't perfect but one thing if does is to give a voice to those who didn't have one before. I'm thinking specifically of oppressive governments and the affected citizens or folks being harassed by law enforcement. Does it really help with that? I'd think for anything important you'd want to spend more than 160 characters explaining it; long-form blogs and tumblr seem like a more effective way to spread such stories. E.g. the report of events in Turkey that was on HN a couple of days ago was fascinating, and I suspect quite influential - and I don't think it would've been anywhere near as effective as a tweet.
- jmathai 13y agoI think both have their place. Twitter serves as a real time stream of events. Longer form posts are useful in a different way.