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I've never liked Twitter. Never used it and disliked its effect on general culture.
Therefore I was happy when Elon bought it, because I knew the Twitter die-hards would hate it.
It's not like he's made it worse, it just was always bad.
Maybe he should buy TikTok as well.
People need to stop acting like their emotions and personal beliefs matter at all when it comes to science. Your feelings don't matter, your opinion don't matter, only thing that matters when it comes to science is scientific evidence. >

That's not the only problem.
The biggest issue is that it is very easy(well, relatively easy) to take a real study and then use out of context quotes, or re-tell the results in a misleading way, or just outright lie about what the study says to further your misinformation agenda.
The rebuttal to these can take hours of work to figure out depending on the specifics, and are way too labour intensive for the average person to even begin to do, and often require high level knowledge to even understand. It's an endless game of whack-a-mole, and has really exploded with the ever expanding echo chambers online. 
Social media has really removed most kinds of nuance in favor of ingroup buzzwords and catchy or emotion inducing titles. >

It's also very easy/cheap to have someone write some bogus 'sienctific' study that says what you want to hear. >


to have someone

You don't even need the "someone" anymore. Hand the assignment to GPT-3 and be done with it. >

Everyone should leave twitter. >

I second that >


The rampant spread of conspiracy theories on Twitter has pushed Finland’s top health authority to stop using the platform to disseminate its public-health messages.
A lack of proper tools on the social media site means the Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare is unable to effectively weed out false and deliberately misleading information, as well as inappropriate comments, from replies to its posts, according to spokeswoman Marjo Loisa. It’s taken the decision to stop sharing to its almost 100,000 followers, freeing up resources from content moderation.
“Our tweets and their comments are used as a platform for spreading disinformation and Twitter doesn’t provide proper tools to block this,” Loisa said in an emailed response to questions. “This has grown to be a major problem during the pandemic.” >

This particular Finnish authority has not been following EU or WHO recommendations during the pandemic at all. A lot of Finns have been questioning why they ignore what everyone else in Europe is doing, while Finland is doing terribly with the pandemic. No masks, no boosters.
This was their response, big surprise >

This past weekend I went back to take a look at my old twitter account. I follow the editor of Scientific American, and scrolled through her feed. The posts are still interesting and have good content. The replies under each post were consistently dumpster fires with derails, denials, and straight up hate. It used to be fun to be able to interact with people doing interesting things, but looking at the "discussions" now just kills any desire to wade into that kind of ugliness. Something pretty remarkable has been lost. >

It has been like this for a very long time. Replies are often complete bullshit. There is no proper conversation at all, i don't know why businesses and government still use this shit platform. >

How can there be good discussions when there is a character limit of 280. Anyone that has anything worth saying that carries deeper insight is blocked out, then all you're left with is snappy retorts, and eventually the masses find out that snappy retorts can be drowned by shitty retorts.