> It sometimes feels like there is the perception that twitter is worthless and devoid of meaningful information
My feeling has been there are nuggets of really good and really up-to-date information there, and there are some threads that are extremely informative, but signal-to-noise ratio is in general extremely close to zero and the hostility of the surrounding environment is unbelievably terrible.
Re:Coronavirus and Credibility
by throwaway294 on Monday April 06, 2020 @05:14PM
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A BIG advantage of Twitter is that get to hear from the persons themselves totally without filtering by the media. Maybe you do or don't like what some public figure who posts on Twitter says, but at least DO get just what THEY said.
This. The slanted editorializing and purposefully misconstrued out-of-context quoting by the media long ago turned me off.
Re:Coronavirus and Credibility
by throwaway294 on Tuesday April 07, 2020 @04:53PM
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My response some years ago was just to turn the mainstream media (MSM) off. On paper they can't compete with Charmin, and on the Internet they are useless for wrapping dead fish heads. Some of their material is worse than just misleading and down to manipulative, deceptive, dangerous, and even destructive. I don't want even to hear the MSM and, then, have to debunk them or risk being influenced. I hope the Internet enables some replacements, many more outlets but focused on smaller audiences.
The way I use twitter, it serves the same purpose as hacker news, but with a much broader scope.