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Re:X glitch wipes out most pictures and links tweeted before... by pmontra on Sunday August 20, 2023 @11:45AM (#37200225)
> OWS, MeToo, Arab Spring, etc, all used Twitter.

They wanted to happen, they would have used something else. Plenty of history happened before Twitter.

Re:X glitch wipes out most pictures and links tweeted before... by mutant_glofish on Sunday August 20, 2023 @11:51AM (#37200288)
Not really. That "arc of history" line is just propaganda. Twitter did play a roll in these changes. Whether these were towards "justice" or not depends on your viewpoint, of course.
Re:X glitch wipes out most pictures and links tweeted before... by xorbax on Sunday August 20, 2023 @12:18PM (#37200539)
The people end up on top see the outcome as just

Winner write history

So whatever happens, it'll be called just...until it isnt

Re:X glitch wipes out most pictures and links tweeted before... by pmontra on Sunday August 20, 2023 @01:17PM (#37201096)
To make an example of my point, how could the American Revolution start in 1765 without Twitter? Something else did play a roll and was good enough. That revolution even succeeded.

Thousands of other data points scattered all along human history, successful or not.

Re:X glitch wipes out most pictures and links tweeted before... by danuker on Sunday August 20, 2023 @12:01PM (#37200371)
It gets more and more difficult to find "something elses" as each of them gets blocked or censored.
Re:X glitch wipes out most pictures and links tweeted before... by pmontra on Monday August 21, 2023 @02:05AM (#37205932)
Everybody is born with a mouth. It's all we had for so much of our history. Add ink. Those were enough for all the movements that shaped the ancient and modern world.
Re:X glitch wipes out most pictures and links tweeted before... by danuker on Monday August 21, 2023 @08:43AM (#37208739)
When have you last physically given someone something written?