Should Twitter cease to exist?

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Notgoodwithusernames

Notgoodwithusernames

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In my opinion, Twitter has been nothing but a blight upon humanity. It has given degenerase morons who make up only a minority of the populace a disproportionateply loud voice while stifling everyone Else. The US would be better off without it.
 
Twitter is the high tech version of a soundbite, which killed off meaningful and nuance in political debates. Everything must be catchy even if it has no actual substance to what is being said.

It is a cancer that allows people to not say anything that meaningful and has developed a culture of outrage. It is a cancer to intelligent discussion and rational discussion. Nothing that meaningful can be said in 120/240 characters.
 
I don't know, hard call. Twitter is searchable without an account which is superb. Let the loons be loony for all to see. Also agree, blight upon humanity, though. But, Mr. President has entertained me greatly via Twitter. The troll tweet about the autistic climate change teen still gives me joy. Stil don't know.
 
Any opinion that fits into 140 characters isn't worth sharing. Nothing's driven down the quality of internet discourse more than twitter's hot takes.
 
Yes. It's a site whose only purposes are advertising, having public internet slapfights and otherwise being corrosive to the fabric of society.
 
On the one hand, it turns anyone who uses it into exceptional individuals incapable of thought, sanity or rational thinking of any sort. making them no better than a genuine retard. On the other, shutting it down will just make them migrate to another site. And the cycle will repeat once more.

In other words, I've got mixed feelings on the subject.
 
If we shut down Twitter, the same would happen as when we shut down all the insane asylums. You don't want these people unoccupied and running about. Please, do not shut down Twitter. It occupies the loons and it's at a safe distance.

Companies might stop taking Twitter mobs seriously, too. A lot of trolling is happening on Twitter and people create fake causes to trick companies in taking a stance. But maybe even that weeds out the bad companies. I am not sure.
 
Book Thievery dijo:
As tempting as it is to say yes, nuking Twitter would simply cause the cockroaches to scatter. You're treating the symptoms and not the disease here.
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That’s what happened when Tumblr banned porn. Many of its users jumped ship to Twitter and brought their insanity with them. The pedos and MAPs Tumblr tried to get rid of with its ban simply moved to Twitter as well.
 
Make Anime Illegal dijo:
Social media is a blight on humanity[...]
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The designers of social media - at least of Facebook - admitted they designed it to be that way on purpose. It's about dopamine.

I miss the days when there were no smartphone zombies and no social media. A time hen you could hang out with a group of people who aren't endlessly staring at little plastic rectangles.
 
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