• adaveinthelife@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    I never understood the appeal of twitter before Elon bought it, and I understand it less with every news report about it since.

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      1 year ago

      It was a great place to share information in a short and clear manner. You could subscribe to journalists working in your area, a professor from MIT or another university, follow sport journalists, war analysts - you name it. They all posted their thoughts and links to their articles, interviews or podcasts with them, they shared information about their new books. Twitter was like an RSS feed, where you could subscribe to authors directly. You could write them and get a reply! It was and probably still is a great tool, though Musk is taking a lot of steps to destroy it.

    • Em Adespoton@lemmy.ca
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      1 year ago

      To be fair, the only thing I ever used it for was emergency reporting.

      If he scales it back so that the only free and public feature is tweets of 250 characters or less, I may actually visit it again. Assuming my ad blocker works.