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I just don't get it. If Twitter was ever good, I still don't think I could go back if I had to.
But it was NEVER FUCKING GOOD.
Some of the worst UI ever, the snarkiest, most narcissistic dweebs, lurking in every thread. Fuck Twitter. Fuck Twitter on every single day since it's existed. I tried it. Zero good moments there. It's fucking cancer that should be nuked from orbit.
Outrage addiction is a real thing… and it is a driving force in both news media and social media.
And I say that fully aware of the doom-scrolling nature of this platform, amongst others…
Well yeah but for a variety of reasons, Twitter was shit. Worse than anywhere else.
The design choice to strictly limit character length alone made it trash.
The original posts were limited to SMS length because that was an interesting way to post.
For awhile cellular data connections were expensive and very limited - so it freed people from thinking about the quality of their opinions vs the precious time and megabytes it might take to post it.
You could just fire off a text from the toilet instead of having to think too deeply.
Yes, I know. That approach has pluses and minuses. More so the latter imo
It was good. Sorry you only ever browsed the political part of Twitter and not comedians and friends!
I followed a variety of people I knew and didn't.
Twitter was political AF at its core. Apparently you forgot it was key to several political movements. This was the the best part about it. The bad parts were that the sea of shit takes on everything was endless and then once brand names started marketing with it it became fully trash. Then 2016 happened and it became way worse due to right wing fuck faces. Fuck Twitter. The only thing good about it was that it happened to exist at the right time politically. Do you really find that part of it to be the only thing wrong with i?
Back in the day I logged onto Twitter and read one-liners and other jokes. No politics, no celebrities. It was great.
Part of it is FOMO, but unfortunately, a lot of news is still broken on Twitter and it is still sometimes useful (I don't use it myself, but others do) as a real-time source of news as it unfolds. There are also a lot of governments that use Twitter to post announcements.
Like I said, I don't use it myself, but I think all of those things contribute.