It's like a half-assed version of poetry. A lot of it's a slog and a bad medium for good communication, but the restrictions of the form do occasionally produce really cool stuff.
You see different types of gems from reddit, at least. It's the home of the impressive effortpost with all the sources you'd ever need, and that can be useful in the right context. More commonly, it's probably the best forum for approximating "real" back-and-forth conversations.
Twitter also gets you uncut brainworms with prominent peoples' names on it, which is fantastic. Never before have we had a window into the mind of a guy like Chuck Grassley
100% agreed. It's also a great means of chipping away at the myth that people in power usually get there by being especially smart or capable. If you can see that members of the American aristocracy are on the same page as that dumb guy you know from work, that might translate into a greater willingness for people to radically depart from the "common sense" of that aristocracy.
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It's like a half-assed version of poetry. A lot of it's a slog and a bad medium for good communication, but the restrictions of the form do occasionally produce really cool stuff.
twitter is the best major social media platform out there tbh
for all its bad takes and problems, I haven't seen even a fraction of those gems on reddit or elsewhere
You see different types of gems from reddit, at least. It's the home of the impressive effortpost with all the sources you'd ever need, and that can be useful in the right context. More commonly, it's probably the best forum for approximating "real" back-and-forth conversations.
Now everything else...
I still think there's far more good-faith discussion on twitter
and the lack of downvotes also adds to that, but a lot of it also has to do with the user populace
Twitter also gets you uncut brainworms with prominent peoples' names on it, which is fantastic. Never before have we had a window into the mind of a guy like Chuck Grassley
I feel like this is a good thing.
The bad takes being short and uncut makes them harder to hide, easier to see.
If you can dress them up with a lot of unnecessary jargon, you can make it seem like you have a point, when you don't.
100% agreed. It's also a great means of chipping away at the myth that people in power usually get there by being especially smart or capable. If you can see that members of the American aristocracy are on the same page as that dumb guy you know from work, that might translate into a greater willingness for people to radically depart from the "common sense" of that aristocracy.