I love complaining about Twitter. I could write a weekly email newsletter dedicated entirely to what's wrong with it (I once compared Twitter to a declining post-industrial Rust Belt city). Complaining about Twitter on Twitter is especially fun. Twitter is arguably as awful as its ever been, yet it's somehow still awesome. To paraphrase Winston Churchill, it's the worst social media platform except for all the others. At their best, any of these platforms acts as a dynamic layer on top of the so-called real world that exaggerates and highlights what's interesting about that world, whether good or bad, and Twitter still accomplishes that task. Facebook exploded in popularity by doing the same for college students in 2004 before devolving into a mixture of escapism, banality, and divisive communication (all of which there's still a huge audience for).
#44: The Hot Twitter Bath
#44: The Hot Twitter Bath
#44: The Hot Twitter Bath
I love complaining about Twitter. I could write a weekly email newsletter dedicated entirely to what's wrong with it (I once compared Twitter to a declining post-industrial Rust Belt city). Complaining about Twitter on Twitter is especially fun. Twitter is arguably as awful as its ever been, yet it's somehow still awesome. To paraphrase Winston Churchill, it's the worst social media platform except for all the others. At their best, any of these platforms acts as a dynamic layer on top of the so-called real world that exaggerates and highlights what's interesting about that world, whether good or bad, and Twitter still accomplishes that task. Facebook exploded in popularity by doing the same for college students in 2004 before devolving into a mixture of escapism, banality, and divisive communication (all of which there's still a huge audience for).