College Kids Doing What Twitter Won't

Re:College Kids Doing What Twitter Won't by danudey on Friday November 03, 2017 @02:05PM (#15621103)

When people start flooding off the service and the only people left are nazis and bots, what will their revenue look like then? It'll become the reddit of social media, with small, reasonable groups overshadowed by overwhelmingly toxic, hostile, and destructive forces.

How long until their blind eye towards harassment, racism, abuse, and booting collapses any value they have? How long until the average person perceives Twitter as a place where racists congregate and no one else can bring themselves to visit?

And when it does, will they pull a reddit and suddenly grow a conscience, miraculously saying "Oh there's a problem on our service and we're going to charge to the rescue!", or are they going to go 4chan and hide behind "freedom of speech" to excuse the filth their platform breeds?

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Re:College Kids Doing What Twitter Won't by Balgair on Friday November 03, 2017 @03:42PM (#15621749)

> ... going to go 4chan and hide behind "freedom of speech" to excuse the filth their platform breeds?

I mean, I don't think 4chan is doing that at all. You give the sons-of-moot too much brainpower. It's a bathroom stall's wall, policing it is silly.

That said, when will Twitter crash over the bot stuff? Wall Street doesn't think it will crash, so it won't. When Wall Street thinks it will crash, then it will. However, Twitter is at the foundation of the ad-scam that most of the Big 4 are running. When that goes belly up, Twitter will be along for the ride, but it's more of a Haunted House than a Log-ride. Scary.

Again, this is my thought process, who knows.

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Re:College Kids Doing What Twitter Won't by rafiki6 on Friday November 03, 2017 @02:10PM (#15621133)

Reddit is the reddit of social media...

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