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Is places like Mastodon, Twitter, and this Threads thing just places for people to just write some blurb? (kbin.social)

submitted 1 year ago by Saturdaycat@kbin.social to c/NoStupidQuestions@kbin.social

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I have never understood the concept of Twitter and such, is it basically like Live Journal with a text limit ? How do the interactions even work ? Just people saying something unprompted and then people just talk?

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[–] LeafyPasserine@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I'm upvoting you purely for describing Twitter as "Live Journal with a text limit". That is exactly what it is and with infinitely less privacy or conversational value.

[–] Saturdaycat@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Ahhh that makes a lot of sense okay! I just don't understand how businesses and establishments claim to say that without Twitter they don't get lifesaving information. What lifesaving information lives on Twitter ? Is this just an exaggeration? Something about weather alerts ? I get weather info just fine without twitter, like on live news articles on their respective websites

[–] LeafyPasserine@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh, for that use case then Twitter is a bit different. Information on Twitter moves fast and you can get quick, bite-sized updates on a company or event (via tags) much quicker than most sites. The ease of sharing information made it very popular for things like announcing updates on website/app down times or catching up on election news for example.

[–] Saturdaycat@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Thank you !