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Re:Twitter’s mass layoffs have begun by faizshah on Friday November 04, 2022 @12:11PM (#33469068)
I read this kind of comment all the time on HN, it’s so confusing to me. I only joined twitter 2 years ago because there are a large number of high quality tweet threads on finance, ML, NLP, breaking news etc. A lot of the time I get information earlier on twitter than I do on any other platform. If anything, for me, twitter has strengthened the quality of public discourse.

If some big event happens I can read an expert’s tweet thread on the matter 30 minutes after the event happened instead of reading an editorialized piece with a bunch of random comments. I was reading tweet threads on the recession 1 year ago with deep analysis from experts. When the FOMC meeting happens 1 hour later I get a thread on the financial implications, another on the economic implications and another on the political implications. You don’t get that quality of information at that speed on any other platform.

I strongly suspect most of these comments about the quality of twitter are actually angry that the people you follow post opinions you don’t like. I see political opinions I don’t like all the time from my finance follows, I just scroll away not sure why that is a problem?

If anything Facebook and YouTube’s algorithm were the most damaging in 2010s because they heavily promoted extremist content to random people. I don’t see that from twitter especially not at the same volume as 2010s FB and YT.

Re:Twitter’s mass layoffs have begun by ramg on Friday November 04, 2022 @04:49PM (#33473547)
If you don't mind me asking, which accounts are you following for your financial news? Thanks!
Re:Twitter’s mass layoffs have begun by faizshah on Friday November 04, 2022 @06:25PM (#33474791)
Too many, you can start with:

- https://twitter.com/saxomarketcall and their podcast

- https://twitter.com/macroalf

- https://twitter.com/unusual_whales

Then you’ll see their retweets and likes in your feed and thats how you can build a good list.

I would stay away from anyone whose primary focus is crypto, biotech or tech stocks unless you are a critical reader.