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I've never used Twitter, but I've heard that it's just a porn site nowadays. Is that accurate?
No, they also have Nazis and other assorted bigots.
Does the NAZI porn involve blond blue-eyed Frauleins in skimpy leather gear with wipps dominating willing slaves?
Asking for a friend.
And a whole lot of racism!
No. There are still a lot of serious journalists on it. It is still a very important media for journalists to quickly share information.
But the porn&hate bots and the uncontrolled trolls make it unbearable. It has always been rough on twitter, but it has become an utter shitshow.
Sorry but It was never that. I joined back in 2016 because everyone said it was the best for fast news and that was a Canadian election year. I didn't last a week, it was just one liners from "journalist" and a plethora of trolls and people slinging shit at each other
Imagine how bad it was for news, that I wound up liking Reddit more because there was a modicum of moderation
Your experience as someone who tried it for a week probably doesn't reflect that of people who used it professionally for many years. Part of what made it valuable to media people was the ubiquity of possible sources, but it takes some time and work to develop links to those sources and to the professional contacts who have their own connections to share.
I'm a consumer of news, how would I compare my experience to someone using it professionally?
I'm saying watching baseball was boring and you are telling me playing baseball is fun. Two different things
The experience of a news consumer is going to be different from that of a professional journalist. Kinda like the experience of eating a burger is different from working in a kitchen. Yeah, they're two different things, we were talking journalism. Twitter was never great for news as a consumer imo, but it was a very valuable resource for journalists. I'm not sure how good X is for either but I'm pretty sure nether experience will have improved.
Yes I get that, but what's the point of "twitter for journalists" if we separate that from people consuming said news? Basically you are saying Twitter is a great note gathering tool for journalists?
Even your claim that it was a great source for journalists I find sus. Maybe lazy journalists that only parrot twitter quotes. Where is the investigation? Corroboration? Context?
In this we agree 100%
You always had to put the work in to find the journalists in whose work you are interested. The algorithm was never interested in doing that for you.
It's was not a problem to find journalists, the issue was reducing news to a one liner. It essentially reduced every news into a clickbait soundbite, no nuance, no context
You've been following the wrong journalists...
This sort of prove my point that Twitter never was a good place for news anyway.
Perhaps you are right and it is a tool for journalists, but not being one, I am happy if it stops existing tomorrow. I am sure journalists would find a way as they did before Twitter
Also the entire games industry is still on it and the move to Bluesky or mastadon ended in a stalemate. It’s the only online place outside of invite only discord servers where you can network with fellow game devs.
My main issue with the serious journalism is that there's apparently no way to sort a feed by time/latest date anymore... what is the point of seeing a random assortment of news from any number of years? Maybe it looks different if you log in, but it used to be my main source of local news & weather before.
It was before, too.