Re:Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources
by brightball on Monday April 25, 2022 @02:17PM
(#31158662)
I think 99.99% of the issue with Twitter is how it seems to be the single place that news media, blogs and numerous other platforms use to cite and spread inflammatory content.
Nobody I follow ever bothers me and I certainly don't post much, but it's the internet flame factory in terms of how much other nonsense gets posted because the content is public by default. That's almost the point.
News stories like, "One user on Twitter thinks..." that shows a tweet showing the inflammatory thing they want to pretend is a trend, even though the tweet itself has virtually no likes were the beginning of a trend that got us to the news cycle we are today.
IMO it's the root cause of the "everybody is terrible" news cycle that people have been trying to live in for the past 10 years. IMO it's all been a media driven attempt to polarize people and it's self reinforcing because Twitter becomes the reference point to determine if people are polarized.
Nobody I follow ever bothers me and I certainly don't post much, but it's the internet flame factory in terms of how much other nonsense gets posted because the content is public by default. That's almost the point.
News stories like, "One user on Twitter thinks..." that shows a tweet showing the inflammatory thing they want to pretend is a trend, even though the tweet itself has virtually no likes were the beginning of a trend that got us to the news cycle we are today.
IMO it's the root cause of the "everybody is terrible" news cycle that people have been trying to live in for the past 10 years. IMO it's all been a media driven attempt to polarize people and it's self reinforcing because Twitter becomes the reference point to determine if people are polarized.