Not to mention that its really easy to buy followers. There's at least one trending topic daily that is clearly bought (See who's tweeting it and they'll be xyz Fan and pqr lover bots)
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#12I am probably in a very small minority, but I have never seen the point of Twitter. It has almost limitless potential to destroy your life by taking something out of context and copying it to millions. I shudder to think of the number of times I have made a tasteless throwaway comment or colourful joke that, if taken out of context, would have had dire consequences.
It has almost limitless potential to take up all your attention, trying to stay up to date with what everyone is saying.
I can't think of a single thing I am missing out on, by not having an active Twitter account, but can think of many reasons to not have one.
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#13The banning of Milo is beyond hypocritical, the person he was "harassing" said far worse things, yet she remains and keeps her little blue check. What a joke.
Twitter is partially owned by a Saudi prince. We'll be pretending if we said it doesn't change things.
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#14Does Twitter have to be Facebook to not be "fucked"?
I don't understand these statements that "Twitter is fucked". Twitter could improve filtering and safety but if it never changed I'd probably still get my news from it for the rest of my life. I just can't think of a better app for my use cases. I often like Twitter Moments, like something funny or some pop culture stuff I wouldn't have picked up on.
Every time there is breaking news Twitter carries it first.
I don't want longer tweets. That's what URL's are for. If you want to discuss really distill your thoughts and thread them. I'm on here to scan for stuff that lights up my brain not have an Op-Ed shoved in my face taking up the whole screen.
I just don't understand. I love twitter.
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#15Trying to stop people trolling, insulting or having bad behavior is a waste of time. Instead of that, make tools so people can filter the noise properly.
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#16I'm sympathetic to the author's general ideas, but also find myself perturbed by the myopic cheapening of the term "violence". (chars < 140)
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#17It's an interesting treatise, but I suggest the author is describing media in general. Tech has only amplified the faults of media: emotionally visceral and passionate (i.e. as opposed to dispassionate or objective) news gets the clicks.
Very proud and 'credible' news outlets face this problem and it's real. Either get the clicks or go out of business.
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#18Twitter is best for announcing things: events, blog posts, updates, software version and the like, plus maybe a link. Anything else is unfit for the platform. The strings are too short.
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#19I am probably in a very small minority, but I have never seen the point of Twitter. It has almost limitless potential to destroy your life by taking something out of context and copying it to millions. I shudder to think of the number of times I have made a tasteless throwaway comment or colourful joke that, if taken out of context, would have had dire consequences. It has almost limitless potential to take up all yo…
You're not in the minority, you're in the majority.
Not that many people actually use Twitter.
That you think you are in the minority is a weird cultural phenom - people with the loud voices behaviours signal to us what is 'normative' even if it is not!
Because you see a lot of people using Twitter, you think 'everyone's doing it'. In reality - most people are far more neutral/central than the voices in the web. And most people just don't care about such things.
Try ignoring Twitter for a few months. You won't feel left out, trust me. It's mostly noise.
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#20twitter 2.0 is 141 chars