Hot (and almost certainly wrong) take: One contributing factor of twitter's popularity among news consumers is that the overwhelming majority of news sites are fucking unusable. Twitter latency: Amortized to near zero Everyone else: Render lag; pop-up; rerender jitter.
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Replying to @generativist
I was trying to read an article about alligators yesterday and I had to go to another site because it immediately threw a pop-up at me, then played a 2 minute ad before the video, and when I thought I was finally gonna get the information I came for, it started ANOTHER long ad.
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