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Hyperbole. Social media is not broken. The retweet is not why. And this guy didn't invent the idea of republishing content. Other microblog services had that, a
by simplecomplex 7y ago
Hyperbole. Social media is not broken. The retweet is not why. And this guy didn't invent the idea of republishing content. Other microblog services had that, and I'm pretty sure Twitter users were doing it on their own.
- ben509 7y agoIt dropped the barrier to republishing to nearly zero, to where impulse becomes the driver.
- loceng 7y agoSo I'm curious what you think is the problem, or if there is one - and if so, what your proposed solution would be?
- simplecomplex 7y agoPeople create their own problems out of nothing. People make mountains out of mole hills. Twitter is one of those problems. Twitter is one of those mountains.
- loceng 7y agoSo you haven't thought very deeply into this? Those statements don't tell me anything - I can say there's the colour white, but that's actually made up of a spectrum of colours. I ask because if you haven't thought deeply into it, how are you confident that your macro statements are accurate?