Back on Christmas Eve of last year there were some reports that Elon Musk was in the process of shutting down Twitter’s Sacramento data center. In that article, a number of ex-Twitter employees wer…

  • @TwilightVulpine
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    21 year ago

    I would argue that a brief, broadly encompassing feed has its advantages when it’s not being driven into lunacy. Discussions on Twitter are always terrible, but as a source for news headlines and media announcements it works pretty well.

    • @joe
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      1 year ago

      Sure, but you can get that with something more long-form, too; it’s not exclusive to Twitter/microblogging .

      • @TwilightVulpine
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        11 year ago

        Conversely, if someone wants a summarized feed, having to browse past walls of text is an inconvenience.

        • @joe
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          31 year ago

          Well, that’s a good point but I still think there are better services than Twitter/microblogging for that. Like our old friend RSS

          • @TwilightVulpine
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            11 year ago

            I like RSS in theory, I used it a lot, but these days websites don’t maintain them as well as they used to.