• @PoopingCough
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    211 year ago

    When I did use twitter it was for being the fastest way to get news on events developing in real time. George Floyd protests, J6 coup attempt, start of war in Ukraine, etc. And not just national/world news but also local news. I don’t really that type of use fits in to your two buckets and unfortunately I don’t think Mastodon is quite there yet to fulfill this type of thing either, but I definitely think it could with more time and more users. Fuck the influencers and people looking for ‘content’ imo, when people are going to Mastodon with breaking news is when we’ll know twitter is completely dead.

    • @[email protected]
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      51 year ago

      Definitely true, totally forgot about breaking events in my original comment. I would say it still lands in bucket B as it’s algorithmically fed at least in my experience as I don’t follow many news sources directly, it just finds its way into my feed via the algorithm.

      when people are going to Mastodon with breaking news is when we’ll know twitter is completely dead.

      Absolutely great point

      • El Barto
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        11 year ago

        Inefficient how? I don’t use twitter, I never liked twitter being mentioned in the actual news (“a user twitted this, another use twitted that, etc”), but what’s more efficient than opening that stupid app and getting content from people who are in the area where the news is happening?

        • @[email protected]
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          41 year ago

          Real time breaking news has an extremely low signal-to-noise ratio. It’s mostly FUD and mis or dis information.