I finally figured out why I hate Twitter and its ilk so much: they primarily amplify the voices of the stupid, resulting in a net negative for society, feel good bs like “Arab Spring”, or whatever marginally employed journalist types tell themselves notwithstanding. Contrast that with delicious or wikipedia, where the stupid can only do limited damage, and the spoils go to the thoughtful. It seems that you’d want to make curation easier relative to creation to get a virtuous cycle of intelligence enhancement instead of a vicious cycle of appeal to the dumbest.

That’s the grand irony of Twitter: Even the real people on the service are fake.

As if you needed another reason to detest twitter. SpaghettiOs’ Dubious Tweet to Remember Pearl Harbor

If your job as a social media douchebag is to run an account for a can of pasta, how else are you going to go “viral”? working as intended. It is also all spam:

it takes a mere 458 followers to land in the top 10% of all Twitter users. It takes 2991 followers to crack the top 1%

Wow, that’s so ghetto. no wonder they won’t go anywhere.
The author argues that the advent of Twitter heralds the destruction of the nation state over the coming century. It is far more likely that the nation state will cause the destruction of Twitter, for having done more to lower the quality of discourse than any technology that came before.
Twitter is fundamentally not viable, and changing leads doesn’t change the drain-circling. TWTR to 0 in 2015

Racist Trump twitter has come up with a new coded way to share racial slurs w/ each other and avoid account suspension. Here’s the ugly list of words and their “true” meanings among white supremacists.

So who is going to buy Twitter and shut it down, doing us all a favor?

By every common metric, falsehood consistently dominates the truth on Twitter. Fake news and false rumors reach more people, penetrate deeper into the social network, and spread much faster than accurate stories.

The dumb Twitter audience is the problem.

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