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Re:Craig Newmark: a survivor from the era of internet optimism by chiefalchemist on Sunday July 14, 2019 @12:46PM (#20434385)
Not really necessary. There is __always__ some pushback on Twitter. Take a position and you'll find those on your side, and those against you. Confirmation bias is alive and well on the internet.

What continues to shock me is how willing (so called) jouranalist are to use Twitter as a source of reliable and trustworthy info. Again, you can find a handful of tweets to support - or not - _any_ issue.

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Re:Craig Newmark: a survivor from the era of internet optimism by pm90 on Sunday July 14, 2019 @01:01PM (#20434446)
Journalists don’t use Twitter as the source of truth unless there is no other way to get info. Eg the current POTUS doesn’t even have regular press briefings and uses Tweets to broadcast everything.

Journalists do seem to like Twitter as a platform to debate though. This was where they found it very useful, and why so many of them were early adopters and continue to be active there.

Why do they like Twitter?Today’s issues are so complex that writing long form articles on every event can limit the scope of your views to one or 2 main things while you may still be interested to debate other things. Twitter is a low cost, easily setup platform to do that.

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Re:Craig Newmark: a survivor from the era of internet optimism by heavenlyblue on Sunday July 14, 2019 @03:37PM (#20435458)
>> interested to debate

Can you elaborate on good debate threads that happened on Twitter?

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Re:Craig Newmark: a survivor from the era of internet optimism by chiefalchemist on Sunday July 14, 2019 @06:01PM (#20436431)
Please note: so called preceded journalists. That is, there are a vast number of media-ites who think of themselves as journalists. It's not that easy.
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