[cercatrova]

Why does Twitter need to end? Have you before and do you currently use Twitter? I've met and talked to a great deal of cool people on there, such as a lot of prominent people in the web dev space, as well as scientists in various fields.

Twitter is just a social network, it can be used for good or for bad, based on who one follows. That people think it needs to end for whatever reason (or maybe they're only used to the bad parts, or have even never used Twitter which is quite a many people in my experience who talk trash about Twitter) is misguided.

[notjoemama]

I agree it shouldn't end, but what I do wish would end is the new media reaching for tweets to pump drama for engagement on their platforms. The economy for attention is just exhausting as an end user, even if I agree with what's being said.

No, I do not need to be informed about X person who said Y thing on Twitter of all places, told to me from talking heads I've never heard of, that want me to be outraged for all the reasons they hate X person or Y statement.

Maybe it's not Twitter's fault, rather people using it as a tool to foment hate on principal. It's certainly not from being well informed via the platform or the news media. Thank God IRL people don't work that way.

[cercatrova]

Why read those news outlets then? I never hear about X person saying Y thing because I don't read general news outlets.

[sangnoir]

> Why does Twitter need to end?

I use Twitter and I think it needs to end - at least in its current form. It has a very low signal-to-noise ratio and doesn't offer the users adequate control over what they see. As an example, you may not want to see (re)tweets on Baseball from the prominent Web Dev space folk you follow, or the off-topic comments by trolls in replies.

> Twitter is just a social network, it can be used for good or for bad, based on who one follows.

...and the people that interact with them. There need to be more receiver-side controls. Blocking tweets by words is a first step, they should have opt-in filter by subject and raise the bar on replies that ride the coat-tails of authors authority.

[exodust]

What you described are good ideas for improvements and new features, not reasons for ending.

[sangnoir]

Much of the toxicity and misinformation on twitter stem from the fact that there are no controls to filter out the garbage on the receiver's end, but there is a perverse incentive dir tweeter not to add these controls because the more tweets they see, the more ad slots Twitter can fill.