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Opinion | the Great Delusion Behind Twitter - The New York Times
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- Or take Twitter. As a medium, Twitter nudges its users toward ideas that can survive without context, that can travel legibly in under 280 characters. It encourages a constant awareness of what everyone else is discussing. It makes the measure of conversational success not just how others react and respond but how much response there is. It, too, i... See more
from I Didn’t Want It to Be True, but the Medium Really Is the Message by nytimes.com
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- the amount of time people spend on Twitter and Facebook and like and share and comment is partly a function of not having any other way of having a voice in government, a sense of disaffection.
from Ro Khanna makes the case for digital public space by ro khanna
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In the late aughts, Twitter and Facebook still valued curiosity, but over the next decade they realized that it wasn't good for business; curiosity brought people to their platforms, but then it whisked them away. So Facebook began paying news companies to make videos that could be hosted on the site, so that users would never leave the page. Twitt
... See morefrom The Internet Isn't Meant To Be So Small | Defector by Kelsey McKinney
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