Twitter is at its best when verified accounts can’t tweet

Re:Twitter is at its best when verified accounts can’t tweet by s9w on Thursday July 16, 2020 @11:18AM (#23859861)

In a similar vein: The social media (in particular Reddit and 4chan) is a different beast on national US holidays, when all the professional opinion steering forces are at rest.

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Re:Twitter is at its best when verified accounts can’t tweet by airstrike on Thursday July 16, 2020 @11:54AM (#23860251)

I mean, is 4chan ever really any good?

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Re:Twitter is at its best when verified accounts can’t tweet by parliament32 on Thursday July 16, 2020 @12:38PM (#23860700)

It's one of the last places you can make a post without having people trawl though your posting history if they dislike something you said. It's an interesting feature.

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Re:Twitter is at its best when verified accounts can’t tweet by FalconSensei on Thursday July 16, 2020 @05:15PM (#23863892)

Also, no downvoting. Just discussions. On Reddit they use downvotes as a way to disagree

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Re:Twitter is at its best when verified accounts can’t tweet by jvsg on Thursday July 16, 2020 @05:06PM (#23863803)

keep in mind that jeffery epstein's death news was first broken on 4chan before MSM picked it up.

https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/4chan-jeffrey-epstein-...

4chan is not just an image board, but an intelligence service too.

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Re:Twitter is at its best when verified accounts can’t tweet by krapp on Thursday July 16, 2020 @05:20PM (#23863950)

>4chan is not just an image board, but an intelligence service too.

Let's not go too far, Pizzagate and QAnon started on 4chan as well. Calling it an "intelligence service" implies a degree of agency or purpose that 4chan doesn't have, or even care about.

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Re:Twitter is at its best when verified accounts can’t tweet by s9w on Thursday July 16, 2020 @01:39PM (#23861500)

Try it. But don't go to /b/. Watch pol, but only observe for a while. Don't get offended, enjoy the liberty and range of ideas - there are goldmines there regularly. Also you'll read things there first, and a lot of things that will never be on the news. If you ignore the slide and shill threads, it's one of the best places on the net right still.

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Re:Twitter is at its best when verified accounts can’t tweet by FalconSensei on Thursday July 16, 2020 @12:54PM (#23860895)

Sometimes better than Reddit

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Re:Twitter is at its best when verified accounts can’t tweet by Izkata on Thursday July 16, 2020 @02:22PM (#23862049)

It's how I found out about https://promiseskept.com/ and http://www.magapill.com/ - lists of things Trump has actually accomplished, without the "Trump is bad" rhetoric. And despite the name of the latter, it's not just a Trump fansite - it's based entirely on links to external sources. Unfortunately, the first one doesn't seem to have sources even though it's organized much better.

(And yes, per sibling comment - it was /pol/)

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Re:Twitter is at its best when verified accounts can’t tweet by kipchak on Thursday July 16, 2020 @01:42PM (#23861534)

yes

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