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What are you referring to when you say ' it's not actually important ' ?
Twitter. X? The broader category of short-form social media, really.
Imagine if most government broadcasts came through TikTok. Every day a bureaucrat would smile for the camera and tell you how great the economic forecast looks for today, or that we’ve always been at war with Eastasia. Then she’d floss or whatever it is the youth are doing. Fifteen seconds total.
It’s fundamentally silly. Unserious. Recognizably low ratio of signal to noise. You could swap out the message and 90% of the video wouldn’t change, because it’s almost entirely style over substance.
That’s X. The actual content of a tweet is of secondary importance. What matters is the style—the snappy phrasing, the correct applause lights. What matters is connecting those things to the right people. Deliver unto your bubble what they were already thinking, and the algorithm shall reward you.
Elon Musk can quote whatever the fuck he wants and people who like his style will gather, insisting he’s “directionally correct.” Then his network gives him all the positive feedback he apparently craves. The amplifier is in saturation. There is next to no signal.
I would like the general public to feel the same way about tweets as they do about TikToks. They are entertainment. Leave the information transfer to a more serious medium.
Oh of course. I agree. In fact I would be even more pessimistic in my position and would say that you underestimate how much the younger generation ( 26 and under ) believes what they see on tiktok. I am 26 and see it relatively often in some of my peers , thankfully not many , yet the younger you go the more the percentage increases. Pretty depressing honestly. I personally believe at this point that X , tiktok and instagram are some of the worst things that have happened to humanity.
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