I just never really got it. It always seemed like a loud room of people sharing their undecorated thoughts with no one in particular.
Exactly. It’s like reading instagram or youtube comments, everybody just shouting 1 liners to a crowded/empty room, with no converstations starting.
Now compare this to the structured convos on former reddit or current lemmy, and I have no idea why people want to interact another way.
There’s a lot of businesses, organizations, companies, Devlopers, and etc that use it as home base. Want to follow what x, y, and z indie dev is up to working on the sequel to your favorite game? Guess what, they didn’t want to roll a website and social media activitly works against cross posting compatibility so they’re just on Twitter. Want to follow an account that only sends something out when a internet service goes offline, and be notified about it? Better hope they thought out a open alternative because almost exclusively the companies I’ve worked with update these matters on their Twitter. I’ve even had their Twitter inform me of issues before their own status.company.com pages (frankly egregious but alas). The cesspool definitely exists, but as a tool/town hall Twitter had won. It’s a mere shadow of it’s former self in this regard nowadays since king elongate the fucked took over, but the after affects as well as the hole in the market remain.
It’s still the platform if you are in the counter strike scene. It’s where all the pros and business insiders are. If you want updates, scoops, if you’re looking for a team or want to learn about tournaments in your area, you have to be on Twitter. It sucks. For me, personally, this just means I don’t follow the Counter-Strike scene anymore :/
Yeah. Just how it goes unfortunately. Consumer buy-in is vastly underrepresented in the technology world. Google, Facebook, Twitter, etc have all leveraged customer and community laziness to push the boundaries without much blowback. If Elon’s tenure over twitter/xitter shows anything, it’s that.
I’ve never met a single human that I know of that feels this strongly about Twitter. Most everyone I know was lukewarm on it at best.
It was best for keeping up with news on organizations more than it was keeping up with people.
I exaggerate of course, for da sake of da humor. But those last two things in the final panel are real rationalizations that real people have said to me to defend their continued twitter use. It’s hard for some people to break habits even when the logical reasons to do so mount.
Lol. I was on that site for under a month total, before the plague. All it did was get me angry all the time and I miss it like I’d miss a case of the clap.