It’s like hating on reddit. The culture is/was awful in many ways, but it had enough redeeming qualities to be entertaining and keep us there. I did have a Twitter account, yes… I never got much engagement or useful interactions until 2-3 years ago, and I did enjoy it for a while. It is interesting how it was semi-anonymous but gave people the opportunity to express their personalities. Some of my favorite accounts were the humorists, like NYT Pitchbot or offline famous authors who I loved hearing from like Sandra Boynton. I also liked that many people I knew in person were on there and I could contact them there vs. IG or FB or whatever.
Still, the various cliches of the platform were even worse than the cliches of reddit. And yeah, after Musk bought it and it was apparent what a shitshow that would be, I deleted my 2009-era account. (they bought vine and killed it, also)
I think it’s more like Tumblr. It gets (got, really. The hate train is basically over) a ton of hate because of a couple of bad communities yet every other platform loves the funny screenshots
It’s like hating on reddit. The culture is/was awful in many ways, but it had enough redeeming qualities to be entertaining and keep us there. I did have a Twitter account, yes… I never got much engagement or useful interactions until 2-3 years ago, and I did enjoy it for a while. It is interesting how it was semi-anonymous but gave people the opportunity to express their personalities. Some of my favorite accounts were the humorists, like NYT Pitchbot or offline famous authors who I loved hearing from like Sandra Boynton. I also liked that many people I knew in person were on there and I could contact them there vs. IG or FB or whatever.
Still, the various cliches of the platform were even worse than the cliches of reddit. And yeah, after Musk bought it and it was apparent what a shitshow that would be, I deleted my 2009-era account. (they bought vine and killed it, also)
I think it’s more like Tumblr. It gets (got, really. The hate train is basically over) a ton of hate because of a couple of bad communities yet every other platform loves the funny screenshots