• dr_catman@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    Anyone still on Twitter (who doesn’t absolutely need to be on Twitter for their job) must either enjoy harassing others or somehow enjoy being harassed?

    I have no clue why anyone who isn’t a right-wing dingbat would use Twitter for fun or whatever. It’s so not fun to be on a platform run by a little manbaby, for a little manbaby.

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      1 year ago

      Authors and others whose main method of self-promotion has been Twitter have probably been motivated to stick around. While alternatives exist, when your goal is getting your name and work in front of the maximum number of eyes, it really matters that Twitter is still more populated and thus better for discovery than other platforms.

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      1 year ago

      who doesn’t absolutely need to be on Twitter for their job

      does this include journalists who would need to actually write articles instead of just embedding 10 tweets and writing a couple linking sentences

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        1 year ago

        Oh, of course! Stealing content for clickbait in lieu of actually doing your job is the use case for twitter.