Ranting on twitter is fucking awful. All it gives is nuance-free soundbites, and there are no 'lines to read between' due to it's brevity. Stuff gets taken the wrong way or out of context all the time.
One of the reasons why it's so powerful is because it gives lazy journalists a stream of easy reaction quotes. When else in the history of journalism has there ever been a private company that was so heavily promoted, regardless of the media source? And even then, the react quotes are poor quality, single-sentence shit.
This rant on twitter is absolutely meaningless unless you have a heap of context to go with it. And because twitter is popular, it's dumbing down public discourse along with it.
/rant, that I couldn't have fit in 140 characters.
One of the reasons why it's so powerful is because it gives lazy journalists a stream of easy reaction quotes. When else in the history of journalism has there ever been a private company that was so heavily promoted, regardless of the media source? And even then, the react quotes are poor quality, single-sentence shit.
This rant on twitter is absolutely meaningless unless you have a heap of context to go with it. And because twitter is popular, it's dumbing down public discourse along with it.
/rant, that I couldn't have fit in 140 characters.