Re:Brazil's top court says X paid pending fines to wrong bank
by throw-the-towel on Saturday October 05, 2024 @05:24PM
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Do you think another social network couldn't have filled this role? I don't know about India, but to me Twitter with its length limits seems to be the ultimate Outrage Generation Machine. Easily 99% of Twitter content I see is either ragebait or jokes, and there's only so many people good at joking.
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Re:Brazil's top court says X paid pending fines to wrong bank
by andrewinardeer on Saturday October 05, 2024 @07:13PM
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If 99% of Twitter content you see is ragebait or jokes then isn't that on you for following accounts that post this type of stuff?
I've gotten enormous value from it from following accounts that post content I deem relevant to my interests.
Don't you view your timeline?
Re:Brazil's top court says X paid pending fines to wrong bank
by throw-the-towel on Saturday October 05, 2024 @09:47PM
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My claim is that the very structure of Twitter emphasizes that type of content, more than any other large social network. Whatever you or me see isn't very relevant, it's anecdata.
Re:Brazil's top court says X paid pending fines to wrong bank
by andrewinardeer on Sunday October 06, 2024 @01:44AM
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When the only way to interact with Twitter was via SMS (hence the 160 character limit), ragebait was basically non-existent.
Since the eternal September (prior to Musks' acquisition) the lowest common denominator has been getting lower by the year.
You have a point that blasting out a tweet which is limited to a low character count does lend itself to ragebait yet the volume of ragebait tweets, in my opinion, is also influenced by the current culture of the network (Musk) and the context of the times (election 4 weeks away).
Re:Brazil's top court says X paid pending fines to wrong bank
by throw-the-towel on Sunday October 06, 2024 @10:59AM
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Fair enough, thank you for your input.