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Originally Posted by TorqueDog
Again, I wasn't, and I liked it that way.  I found it the most annoying and least interesting of the social media platforms I had tried, and even when I tried to use it in a professional context, I found I just couldn't be arsed to use it. It also annoyed me to no end that news organizations suddenly started using the over-the-top reactions of a handful of chronically online idiots on Twitter to gauge real-world sentiment on pretty much every subject, if not sometimes as the basis for an entire article. |
If one good thing came out of Musk taking over Twitter it's that journalists no longer treat 200 people freaking out about something on Twitter/X/Bluesky as a reflection of popular sentiment.