He has shown his character by his actions. I find it's more clear to not listen to what people say, instead watch what they do.
twitter is only important if your stuck in the bubble of twitter people. Tons of people dont use twitter, let alone even write on there. to get even like 1000 replies is still an insignificant amount, even though it feels like a lot. there are 300million people in just the US. thinking twitter replies are meaningful or represent enough people to have discourse is disconnected from the real world.
Twitter is useful for following authors and finding out when they have new books. Now I have to seriously consider GoodReads. shudder
why wouldnt you just use their mailing list? ive tried this, to keep up todate with and theres so much uncontrollable noise anything important gets lost.
Because email has been so thoroughly decommoditized by Big Tech in the name of "fighting spam" that trying to receive email successfully feels like a trip to the roulette wheel?
This is more disconnected from the real world than Twitter, because you're focusing solely on a US-centric viewpoint. There are plenty of other places in the world where Twitter has been a core piece of communication.
you want me to just take your word for that? or are you just going to point to arab spring or something? twitter was only more popular and used in japan then the us. but use is overall down. facebook seemed to have penetrated a lot more then twitter around the world
For people who needed visibility and access to a platform it's actually a quite important tool. I'm not talking about the frivolous uses.
instagram seems to have much better reach then twitter could. throw away updates are popular with stories. i see more people putting effort into instagram then twitter. some dont even have twitter accounts
This is the sad thing. I don't even use Twitter, except when a site is down, I go to the company's twitter to see if they're saying anything about it. Can't do that this time, I guess.
Yes, it is a bummer. Twitter was far from perfect, but it was the only large social media platform I felt took its role as a publisher at least kind-of seriously and worked towards clamping down on misinformation and hate speech. Musk spending truly unimaginable quantity of resources in order to turn the only kinda-sorta-semi-decent social network into yet another hands-off also-ran is pretty devastating. Here's hoping for its swift fall so something better can fill the gap.