Comment on The year Twitter died: a special series from The Verge

• NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Day to day? no

  When shit hits the fan? The Arab Spring is probably the quintessential example. But en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter#Usage_2 and en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter_usage are good reads to be aware. Rather than just, ironically, do a drive by hot take.

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  • spacecowboy@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Plenty of people are linked to it, but that would be the same without Twitter, too. Twitter is not new nor is it unique. It’s a flavour.

    I think you are stuck in your own bias.

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    • NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Yes. If a different service had the same market share and the same base concept it would fulfill the same role.

      But twitter is what fulfilled that role in this timeline. And, as many of us have been lamenting since the chudstain bought it, that is a very major loss.

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      • spacecowboy@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        The world is not and was not a better place with Twitter in it. Grow up.

        People are generally stupid and easily influenced. Not sure if you’ve noticed but (“western”) society has pretty much taken a nose dive over the last couple of decades. Social media such as Twitter and Facebook are a big reason for that.

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