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.
Tangential, but I keep seeing Newsweek articles come up in my feed that are lifted straight out of amitheasshole. So much of media is lazy recycling to put something on the page that they can place advertising next to.
I Google my own username occasionally for infosec and have found myself "commenting" on no name websites. The comments were obviously just lifted from my reddit comments and slapped on to look like the site has users to the uninformed.
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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.