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Re:Elon Musk moves ahead with Twitter deal in 13D filing by qwertox on Tuesday October 04, 2022 @06:54PM (#33088255)
I like Twitter for all it's spaceflight related stuff from NASA and ESA, DLR and others, where live streams can only occur in form of text and photo updates. I couldn't think of a replacement platform for this use case. Or current news events for which the press is to slow to publish, or where they quote Twitter as the source, like today's "Fuck you" message, which is something which might make it into some history books. Sometimes some IT related posts are interesting, from people who are at the source or generally have a very good understanding of the topic.

I never scroll my "feed" or whatever they call it.

Re:Elon Musk moves ahead with Twitter deal in 13D filing by dragontamer on Tuesday October 04, 2022 @07:08PM (#33088395)
It'd be nice if we all went back to RSS readers, methinks.
Re:Elon Musk moves ahead with Twitter deal in 13D filing by stjohnswarts on Wednesday October 05, 2022 @03:17AM (#33092278)
I would posit that 98% of the public didn't use RSS tho, and I think that's a conservative number.
Re:Elon Musk moves ahead with Twitter deal in 13D filing by owisd on Wednesday October 05, 2022 @10:22AM (#33095927)
If you count podcasts it would be a lot less than that. It's not too much of a stretch to imagine under the right conditions a (micro)blogging equivalent of Apple Podcasts could take off.
Re:Elon Musk moves ahead with Twitter deal in 13D filing by dragontamer on Wednesday October 05, 2022 @11:44AM (#33097030)
You mean Tiktok / Youtube shorts?