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Re: Twitter experiences longest global outage in years

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Post by JanneVee » Thu, Jul 14, 2022, 7:36 PM UTC

tablespoon wrote: post #40

JanneVee wrote: post #33

From the article: > Since then, the site’s importance to global politics and culture has grown, and a long-lasting outage could even have had a material effect on the Conservative party’s leadership election, where runners and riders have been trading barbs since Boris Johnson announced his resignation last week. This is downright dystopic and people don't get it. A countrys exceptional situation where a they get a n…

> This is downright dystopic and people don't get it. A countrys exceptional situation where a they get a new leader which is not being democratically decided by the people, but a minority of Tories that have the time to read "barbs" on Twitter. That's not dystopian, it's just how that system of government works. Literally no system will satisfy everyone, and direct democracy has its own well-known flaws. For what it…

"It is how the system works", is not getting it... Twitter is used by a minority yet it supposedly captures significant political power. It is really hard to explain it to someone who doesn't care how supposed work and think I mean that it is about "direct democracy". Elected politicians should be working for the people regardless they voted for them or not. They aren't supposed to write crap on twitter about the "other guys" within the same fucking party.

Re: Twitter experiences longest global outage in years

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Post by tablespoon » Thu, Jul 14, 2022, 7:42 PM UTC

JanneVee wrote: post #41

tablespoon wrote: post #40

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> This is downright dystopic and people don't get it. A countrys exceptional situation where a they get a new leader which is not being democratically decided by the people, but a minority of Tories that have the time to read "barbs" on Twitter. That's not dystopian, it's just how that system of government works. Literally no system will satisfy everyone, and direct democracy has its own well-known flaws. For what it…

"It is how the system works", is not getting it... Twitter is used by a minority yet it supposedly captures significant political power. It is really hard to explain it to someone who doesn't care how supposed work and think I mean that it is about "direct democracy". Elected politicians should be working for the people regardless they voted for them or not. They aren't supposed to write crap on twitter about the "ot…

I think Twitter's a red herring. IIRC, in the UK the prime minister is chosen by the MPs from the majority party. It's not just the ones on Twitter, though Twitter might be one of the channels some of those members use for rhetoric to influence the final decision. That rhetoric will happen somewhere, Twitter or no.

Also when it gets down to it, in an election the ultimate outcome is decided by the people who are on the fence, which is much smaller that the whole group.

Re: Twitter experiences longest global outage in years

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Post by gigatexal » Thu, Jul 14, 2022, 7:49 PM UTC

briantakita wrote: post #34

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I hope Twitter didn't pay you in TWTR to write this ;-) Bad management will eventually ruin good tech. It's a shame to see what Twitter has become after so much promise.

shiiieeet if i was paid in TWTR i'd have taken it ... I'd take stock over USD any day.

Re: Twitter experiences longest global outage in years

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Post by briantakita » Fri, Jul 15, 2022, 3:20 PM UTC

gigatexal wrote: post #43

briantakita wrote: post #34

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I hope Twitter didn't pay you in TWTR to write this ;-) Bad management will eventually ruin good tech. It's a shame to see what Twitter has become after so much promise.

shiiieeet if i was paid in TWTR i'd have taken it ... I'd take stock over USD any day.

You're right. There will probably be another price spike due stock buybacks paid for by another injection of helicopter money from the Fed.