Re:Twitter confirms Twitter Blue
by lolinder on Friday May 28, 2021 @02:00PM
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> What is Twitter but a reflection of our own society?
Twitter isn't just a reflection, though, it's a feedback loop. It takes a stream of ideas (usually ill-considered) from a ridiculous number of people and sends them directly to the people that it expects will be most emotionally affected by them. Those people then absorb those ideas and either react with anger or support, feeding the system with new material to repeat the cycle.
If Twitter simply reflected society, it would have done no harm. But instead it's amplified the most animalistic part of our collective nature.
Twitter isn't just a reflection, though, it's a feedback loop. It takes a stream of ideas (usually ill-considered) from a ridiculous number of people and sends them directly to the people that it expects will be most emotionally affected by them. Those people then absorb those ideas and either react with anger or support, feeding the system with new material to repeat the cycle.
If Twitter simply reflected society, it would have done no harm. But instead it's amplified the most animalistic part of our collective nature.