Idk but i think its the emphasis on engagement (positive or negative) and the brevity of messaging. like a lot of social media, the more a post is interacted with, the more the platform promotes that post, encouraging people to make purposefully controversial statements, because its almost guaranteed to get attention.
then, you can only write 260 characters on a tweet, which means that you have very limited space to succinctly convey possibly complicated ideas. (But on the other hand, you can write a long thread and have it get a lot of impressions if its on trend for the day.)
The thread format is fucking garbage for some thing.
The whole thing about the rest of the site is that it's set up to reward "dunks" above all else, so you have a dipshit OP with a snarky reply below it that means nothing unless you're already in the replier's circle. We could sit here and opine about a platform that encourage "substantial conversation", but if people wanted that they'd be on Reddit (which has its own set of issues lol).
very true. like, tumblr is designed to encourage long form posting, but it was hell in its heyday because dunking on someone almost always works if youre funny enough or your opinion is popular, or you have a large audience.
Idk but i think its the emphasis on engagement (positive or negative) and the brevity of messaging. like a lot of social media, the more a post is interacted with, the more the platform promotes that post, encouraging people to make purposefully controversial statements, because its almost guaranteed to get attention.
then, you can only write 260 characters on a tweet, which means that you have very limited space to succinctly convey possibly complicated ideas. (But on the other hand, you can write a long thread and have it get a lot of impressions if its on trend for the day.)
The thread format is fucking garbage for some thing.
The whole thing about the rest of the site is that it's set up to reward "dunks" above all else, so you have a dipshit OP with a snarky reply below it that means nothing unless you're already in the replier's circle. We could sit here and opine about a platform that encourage "substantial conversation", but if people wanted that they'd be on Reddit (which has its own set of issues lol).
very true. like, tumblr is designed to encourage long form posting, but it was hell in its heyday because dunking on someone almost always works if youre funny enough or your opinion is popular, or you have a large audience.
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