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Comment by cloutchaser | Hacker News Reader

It's truly amazing how despite all this twitter is as successful as it is.

Something about _very important people_ sharing their thoughts in 140/280 characters really is the addictive nicotine of the human attention span.

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I never really got twitter in the past. Terrible conversation flow, hard to find things, so. much. noise for very little benefit. Anything that is "only on twitter" finds its way to HN or reddit anyways, where its much easier to discuss the the topic.

And twitter in the present just seems outright toxic, I can't imagine being a new user on today's twitter.

It's not the fact that you can read what the important people are posting. It's the lottery-like hope that they might read your reply.

> might read your reply

Or better reply

It is suffering though. Hollywood has largely moved to Instagram. What is left on Twitter is musicians and politicians, with their toxic communities. If musicians manage to find a better outlet, Twitter will become unable to escape the stigma of being the cesspool of humanity.

I see mainly propagandists that call themselves "journalists" all in a extremely sad feedback loop of ever recursive propaganda cycle...

All using each other as a "source" to create a false picture of reality

> Hollywood has largely moved to Instagram

AFAIK, they still announce the monkey JPEGs somebody overpaid for on their behalf on Twitter.

They broadcast on all channels, of course, but the actual authors and actors engage predominantly on IG.

Generally network business are very sticky and companies can do all kind shitty things before users leave.

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