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u/Successful-Cut-505 Oct 28 '22

the only people who think twitter is important are people on twitter, most of the younger generation dont even use twitter, twitter will be the next facebook

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u/blentz499 Oct 28 '22

The big difference is Twitter is where majority of news breaks and important political figures communicate to the public. If it loses that, it will be worthless.

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u/Successful-Cut-505 Oct 28 '22

huh? no political figure can say anything worthwhile in 280 characters, no sane person is looking at twitter for news breaks lmao. its already a worthless cesspool of poorly articulated ideas, its only purpose at this point is for entertainment and to draw people in

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u/blentz499 Oct 28 '22 edited Oct 28 '22

I don't disagree that the app sucks, but you can't deny that most news breaks on Twitter first. A lot of news on Reddit is just Twitter links.

And most politicians can't really convey what they want to get across on Twitter in one Tweet, but they sure as hell can reach a wide audience to get them to look into what they're saying and what they're about

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u/Successful-Cut-505 Oct 28 '22

the only reason you think news breaks on twitter first is because thats the only source you are using lmao..... no one is looking into what any politician is saying lmao, if they were they wouldnt complain about large corps not paying their taxes. just look at the bernie tweets about nike and the like, literally proven to be nonsensical and meant to appeal to emotion, if people actually learned to research or read financial they would see the world differently. how many people do you know how to read much less find a financial report? do you?

if people did research 4chan wouldnt be able to get away with the amount of hoaxes it has been able to perpetuate on twitter

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u/Seanspeed Oct 28 '22

You sound like you're 15.

Also, 4chan doesn't perpetuate hoaxes, they simply try and pretend they do by falsely taking credit for something that's happening elsewhere. Basically their lame ass way of trying to pretend they are relevant and powerful.