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All three game console makers, Nintendo, Microsoft, and Sony, have now abandoned X (formerly Twitter) integration (www.theverge.com)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (12 children)

No. There are still a lot of serious journalists on it. It is still a very important media for journalists to quickly share information.

But the porn&hate bots and the uncontrolled trolls make it unbearable. It has always been rough on twitter, but it has become an utter shitshow.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (9 children)

No. There are still a lot of serious journalists on it. It is still a very important media for journalists to quickly share information.

Sorry but It was never that. I joined back in 2016 because everyone said it was the best for fast news and that was a Canadian election year. I didn't last a week, it was just one liners from "journalist" and a plethora of trolls and people slinging shit at each other

Imagine how bad it was for news, that I wound up liking Reddit more because there was a modicum of moderation

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (3 children)

You always had to put the work in to find the journalists in whose work you are interested. The algorithm was never interested in doing that for you.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It's was not a problem to find journalists, the issue was reducing news to a one liner. It essentially reduced every news into a clickbait soundbite, no nuance, no context

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

You've been following the wrong journalists...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

This sort of prove my point that Twitter never was a good place for news anyway.

Perhaps you are right and it is a tool for journalists, but not being one, I am happy if it stops existing tomorrow. I am sure journalists would find a way as they did before Twitter

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