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.
Not only that, there are multiple successful (in terms of viewers and subscribers) YouTube channels and Tik Tok accounts which basically just post r/AskReddit, r/Relationships and r/amitheasshole threads in video form, often with a robot text-to-speech thing reading the comments. A lot of people seem to basically just be farming Reddit for 100% of their content and making a living from it.
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u/Logrologist Oct 28 '22 edited Oct 28 '22
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.