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Re:Twitter deletes China embassy's Xinjiang 'emancipation' t... by 6gvONxR4sf7o on Sunday January 10, 2021 @12:31PM (#25717023)
But if people are only reading on social media, then they will only see it when someone else posts it there (e.g. a newspaper). Or I’ll read it from a newspaper and it’s still filtered through someone’s perspective, unless it’s an op ed. To reach people directly, you need people to be regularly checking wherever you post. Probably what GP meant by being able to create the narrative better on social media.
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Re:Twitter deletes China embassy's Xinjiang 'emancipation' t... by thwarted on Sunday January 10, 2021 @01:07PM (#25717462)
People won't continuously reload a web page that is a political leader's stream of thought?

Something can be a highly currated narrative and be accessible to everyone. Shit, people even have web browsers on their phones and computers these days. Social media in general, and Twitter in particular, does not encourage the creation of highly currated narratives.

We should probably invent a publish-subscribe distributed protocol for this, maybe some kind of Really Simple Syndication.

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Re:Twitter deletes China embassy's Xinjiang 'emancipation' t... by 6gvONxR4sf7o on Sunday January 10, 2021 @07:11PM (#25722093)
> We should probably invent a publish-subscribe distributed protocol for this, maybe some kind of Really Simple Syndication.

+1 for that. Was RSS just too much effort to catch on? Or was discovery the issue? It's a great thing.

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Re:Twitter deletes China embassy's Xinjiang 'emancipation' t... by pimlottc on Sunday January 10, 2021 @03:36PM (#25719413)
You can use the word “should” all you want, but the fact is that Twitter is where most people are today. And when you’re trying to your message out, that matters.
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