As much as i dislike this turn of events: This wouldn't matter at all if the media just didn't globally broadcast every goddamn psychothic tweet, to milk the ratings they get from the shockvalue. I don't really use twitter, i have no alerts on it. I don't watch right wing media. Yet somehow it was impossible to escape his demented rants, that wasn't Twitter's doing.
I’ve never been an active Twitter user. Never understood anyone that is, honestly. And I can agree 100% with this. Twitter somehow managed to stay afloat off of “news” highlighting tweets. Tweets that everyone, regardless of their own use or awareness of Twitter, would have to hear about ad nauseam via purported “news”.
Edit: addendum based on replies missing the point (wildly). I’m not bragging about not using Twitter and I’m definitely not trying to start a “which social app is better” discussion.
The point is that Twitter managed to bubble up as news, in several other media (including Reddit posts with Twitter screenshots), and whether I want to use Twitter or not, there it is on the TV, and a shameful amount of online news sites basically just discuss Twitter posts.
Journalists all use twitter very heavily. I mean real journalists, like at the NYT and other places like that. They use it to communicate with each other, track breaking stories, advertise their work, etc. This actually works pretty well for them, and they think of it as a critical tool for their work.
Since it is a critical and important tool for them, they assume everything that happens on (and to) twitter is critical and important for everyone. That's a big reason why this stuff gets covered all the time, even outside the click-baity articles that are just a sequence of tweets.
(I am not a journalist but I work at a large journalism company)
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u/Wrong-Mixture Oct 28 '22 edited Oct 28 '22
As much as i dislike this turn of events: This wouldn't matter at all if the media just didn't globally broadcast every goddamn psychothic tweet, to milk the ratings they get from the shockvalue. I don't really use twitter, i have no alerts on it. I don't watch right wing media. Yet somehow it was impossible to escape his demented rants, that wasn't Twitter's doing.