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Originally Posted by driveway
Because Twitter has become something that it really isn't: namely a forum where people pretend to have discussions and where politicians make-believe that they are making profound or important statements.
Twitter is a phenomenal resource for disseminating information very quickly. It is a great way to gather headlines and brief situational updates.
The problem is that people pretend like Twitter is something else. The moment news organizations started reporting the tweets of politicians and celebrities as though they are somehow useful or purposeful was the day Twitter became something worth disparaging. It has grown worse as activists from all sides of every issue have taken to twitter as a forum for debate and discussion.
There is no issue which can be productively or informatively discussed in 140-character snippets of thought, and the fact that people make the attempt to do so on Twitter is, frankly, deplorable.
Using Twitter as anything other than a news-gathering and news-disseminating tool is to utterly misunderstand what the technology is useful for and expose oneself and the technology itself to ridicule.
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