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Re:Twitter, to Save Itself, Must Scale Back World-Swallowing... by morgante on Friday February 12, 2016 @12:17PM (#11088708)
I really don't see how it's "public infrastructure."

If Twitter disappeared tomorrow, most of the public wouldn't bat an eye.

Re:Twitter, to Save Itself, Must Scale Back World-Swallowing... by JBReefer on Friday February 12, 2016 @12:39PM (#11088893)
Hell, I would be actively happy. I really don't like the impact Twitter has had on journalism and on outrage culture. It's too short to be intellectual and seems to encourage the "2 minutes of hate."
Re:Twitter, to Save Itself, Must Scale Back World-Swallowing... by 13thLetter on Friday February 12, 2016 @01:11PM (#11089134)
I have to second that. Twitter really does provide negative societal value, given that it's almost perfectly designed to drive outrage storms and incoherent, ingroup-pleasing snark in place of journalism. If Twitter suddenly vanished tomorrow, the quality of public debate in the United States would skyrocket.