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by champagnois 1590 days ago
Twitters design makes it kind of a weird one way communication tool.

Elon Musk can tweet something and a million people will reply. What percentage if those replies are bots, shills, or people trying to get money out of some offer of employment? Likely an absurdly high %.

Then there are the hacker groups and their influence campaigns... All over twitter.

I feel like twitter might be useful on a self hosted intranet with your close family and friends -- but as a global product it is grotesque.

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I’ve always thought of it as that. More generally, idea could be applied to YouTube, podcasting, etc. One person has ability to broadcast to millions, while the millions can’t broadcast back equally.