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I didn't know there was a schedule for their falling apart, they seem to be lagging a bit to me.

I never used it*, I wouldn't think of it as ever being a useful source for "news" as I think of the term.  

*Of course, at times I will check something someone links which happens to be on Twitter.  I think I never really understood the core concept.

I mostly use business news sites, I find them more direct, even handed, and the usually avoid "news" items about what some "star" did or said.  Watching the news, for me, on TV, is a waste of time.  I likely am more interested in "business news" than a lot of folks (probably not so much folks here).

I mostly use business news sites, I find them more direct, even handed, and the usually avoid "news" items about what some "star" did or said.  Watching the news, for me, on TV, is a waste of time.  I likely am more interested in "business news" than a lot of folks (probably not so much folks here).

Well, right. Me too. Something like the Financial Times is solid and reliable, but compared to Twitter (or how Twitter used to be) is slow. If you wanted real time news in whatever subject you wanted, Twitter was tough to beat. However, they got rid of their reliability system when Musk bought it, so it is much more difficult to figure out if what you are seeing is even real. 

It could be helpful, but source quality is sort of a universal thing.

If you read people reliable, it was reliable and fast. If you didn’t (and many don’t) it wasn’t.

Also kind of addictive to follow, which is how it got its current owner.

Do you feel it has changed? I was sort of sanguine about the whole thing but lately feel it is much more a waste of time than it used to be.

I never used it*, I wouldn't think of it as ever being a useful source for "news" as I think of the term. 

*Of course, at times I will check something someone links which happens to be on Twitter.  I think I never really understood the core concept.

Twitter was never about the content itself, it was about how content moves and flows.

Nothing spreads as fast as Twitter. 

Take college football news, for example. I get it here. Which means it relies on whether you folks have seen it and deemed it worthwhile to post. 

If only following a handful of college football accounts on Twitter, however, I'd see it almost immediately. The idea of the "retweet" which takes zero effort compared to posting here means that anything that is compelling pushes through the communities of people who follow that topic--whatever it is--at blazingly fast rates.

Now, some of that content is quality, and other content is bullshit. So you have to have your mental filters engaged. But it moves FAST, which is sometimes itself a quality you can't find elsewhere.