It’s heartbreaking what ten years and a Nazi-enabling takeover can do to one of the most important tech utilities of the modern era. I speak, of course, of Twitter. Ten years ago this summer, I built the bulk of my core Twitter following while live-blogging a landmark legislative session for abortion rights here in Texas.
Fuck Twitter, they don’t have any monopoly on “news” or journalism. Blogging, and many other forms of independent journalism existed before Twitter and they still work. Twitter is not the Internet, and it’s not a newspaper or magazine. The Internet will be just fine without it and the world wide web can host any journalism that anybody wants to publish.
I believe the problem isn’t the place where journalist can write, but place to get exposure.
Yes, one can write a blog but how many of the netizens read blogs without a social media link? Independent journalist aren’t newspaper nor magazine. When they investigated something and reported it, yet no one reads it, that’s waste of effort. Social media is the perfect place for them to get exposure.
Twitter of course not the only social media in the world. But in reality, we consume less and less textual but visual information. And Twitter is one of the few platform that focused on text, rather images or videos.
Fuck Twitter, they don’t have any monopoly on “news” or journalism. Blogging, and many other forms of independent journalism existed before Twitter and they still work. Twitter is not the Internet, and it’s not a newspaper or magazine. The Internet will be just fine without it and the world wide web can host any journalism that anybody wants to publish.
I believe the problem isn’t the place where journalist can write, but place to get exposure.
Yes, one can write a blog but how many of the netizens read blogs without a social media link? Independent journalist aren’t newspaper nor magazine. When they investigated something and reported it, yet no one reads it, that’s waste of effort. Social media is the perfect place for them to get exposure.
Twitter of course not the only social media in the world. But in reality, we consume less and less textual but visual information. And Twitter is one of the few platform that focused on text, rather images or videos.