The new Twitter is becoming a cesspit of disinformation — study it now
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Social-media researchers overemphasized the platform now called X for years. But now, as it rapidly changes into something new and frightening, we risk paying too little attention.
  • StraightArrow@feddit.deEnglish
    14·
    11 months ago

    I’ve never used Twitter, nor liked it, but in 2010 I had to observe that it was indeed useful when it became one of the primary ways for people to communicate during the Arab Spring.

    Since then I kept not being into it, but at least I thought it had some important value I had not seen.

    Now it’s all locked up, so it really has become useless (and I haven’t even talked about the rampant disinformation)

    RIP Twitter

    Edit: fixed grammar

  • hyperhopper@lemmy.mlEnglish
    132·
    11 months ago

    Didn’t the mods say they were going to do something about musk/Twitter spam?

    This isn’t even about something Twitter did

    This isn’t even about something Twitter might do

    This is just a dude talking about what everybody knows about Twitter. And musk fans upvote anything Twitter, and musk haters upvote this out of a sense of validation that is shit.

    Voting is not good for this, please ban the musk spam

    • KevonLooney@lemm.eeEnglish
      71·
      11 months ago

      Block it yourself. Block the words “elon” and “musk”. You won’t miss anything.

  • Railcar8095@lemm.eeEnglish
    1·
    11 months ago

    I once read a quote that roughly translates as “Even the greatest wizard of all time can’t transform bread into bread”.

    I always thought it was stupid, but makes more sense now.