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Twitter had a relatively good signal to noise ratio until 2011 or so. It became the place where people go to freak out and spy on their coworkers somewhere between late 2011 and mid 2012. By the mid 2010s it was creepy.


maybe my use of twitter is wrong, but it's where i go to find interesting news, articles, breaking news and somewhat uncensored opinions. Most 'aggregators' are saturated with the most mindbogglingly boring groupthink. Twitter is like FM tuner, you search for the good stuff. I wish it will be replaced with some kind of RSS though, it s terrible that it's all held by a not-so-competent corporate


I use it heavily as a news aggregator for finclout. For that it's extremely useful. For human interaction, I think the interface is crap.


the interface is crap in general. it's 2022 and just now the page randomly reloads as i was reading an interesting thread, i lost my position as it was 15 or so infinite scrolls down. How can it be in this day and age i can't scroll, sort, search a list of tiny telegraphic sentences and images. The aliens who are watching us must be shaking their heads in disbelief




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