Re:Twitter, to Save Itself, Must Scale Back World-Swallowing...
by JBReefer on Friday February 12, 2016 @12:39PM
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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
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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.
If Twitter disappeared tomorrow, most of the public wouldn't bat an eye.