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X, formerly Twitter, faces 2,200 arbitration cases and filing fees over $3 million
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Technology is a means to an end so I like to make the distinction of what the company actually does or make. Apple's primary business is selling computer hardware (an actual technology product) so it's a technology company. Microsoft sells software and cloud services (tech tools) so it's a technology company. Netflix sells access to video, so it's a media company. Are algorithms involved? Sure, but they're child's play compared to the algorithms used by high frequency traders, yet those people still unambiguously work for finance/banking companies. Every large retailer employs data scientists and teams of data analysts, but they're still retailers rather than tech companies. Amazon is the trickiest to categorize. Amazon.com is a straight up retailer but AWS is clearly a tech "company." Best to think of that one like a conglomerate.
There is no separating one from the other when it comes to social media. What we see, when and where is dictated by the technology behind it.
Say, by the same logic one might say that Google's main service is organizing and offering information, but it is still one of the main companies one thinks of when it comes to Technology. Rightfully so, because even putting aside cloud storage and the like, its search engine technology is central to what it offers.
I think because people are tired of seeing articles related to social media, they want to argue that it's only technology if it is some sort of device, but that is a simplistic way to see the matter. There's a merit to say that technology is connected to all sort of fields and purposes today, but that doesn't make it less of technology, or the companies behind them less technology-focused.
Social media is technology, and social media companies are a valid topic of discussion in technology communities.
My contention is that the use of technology is so universal that it's not meaningful to call a company a technology company just because they use a lot of technology, even if they have to create a lot of it themselves. Pretty much every big company has on-staff software engineers making and implementing custom technology. It takes a lot of technology to make a law firm work but that doesn't make a law firm a technology company. If we use too-expansive of a definition for what's a technology company, then it applies to almost every company, making it a useless term.
I do not think social media companies are technology focused. They just use technology to achieve their social media (/advertising) business goals, the same as every bank, every hospital, every trucking company, etc.
Absolutely 💯
My microwave uses an insane amount of technology.
Twitter uses a website an app and advertising.
There's a huge difference between those two.
You can absolutely separate social media companies from general technology. It's easy. Mostly because all they do is have a website, app, and advertising.
Why don't we cover every second of news from microwave companies? One reason would be because they're so common place, and have been for decades.
Why do we cover every second of news from social media sites? They're common place and have been around for decades.
Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, etc are just websites. That's all they are.
"Just websites?"
You seriously want to pretend that your microwave has more technology than Facebook does? You think they are just some HTML pages? C'mon...
I see you are trying to downplay their complexity with hyperbole, but that's just makes you sound silly.
I really want to believe you're being sarcastic
No, it's just you. And disingenuous.
I hope you understand how incredibly dumb your previous comment is. It's close to being the dumbest thing I've ever seen anyone say. I'm not attacking you, I'm seriously hoping that you understand how dumb it is.
Ah yes, 5th grade debating tactics: call people dumb and offer no argument whatsoever. Weird how popular this is becoming. You'd think people have a bit more self-respect than this.
You're trying to say a website has more technology in it than a microwave oven. A technology that helped create radar and led to massive increases in multiple areas of science during and after WWII.
And you're calling me a 5th grader.
Your comparison was between "my microwave" and "Twitter". Not only that, but you tried to reduce Facebook and Instagram also, platforms that deliver personalized content to hundreds of millions of people, to "just websites".
But that's not why you look like 5th grader, it's because you'd rather call someone dumb a bunch of times than explain what you mean. You want to do a whole melodrama to feel like you are smarter than whoever you are talking to, all the while saying nothing of substance. Really, you only proven that you are a tiresome person to talk to.
Love how you're ignoring everything I say about technology.
I did call you dumb though. Since that's what you want to focus on now, because you're obviously wrong about the technology in question. I'll call you dumb again and again. I have you tagged as "incredibly dumb" actually.
Because going by what you've been saying it's true. You are incredibly dumb. Do your friends and family know how dumb you are? Do they have any idea, or have you been able to fake being almost normal your whole life?
Look, I found your original point interesting, but if there was a major upset in the microwave industry, then that would belong in the technology section of a news site too.