As we saw, until the mainstream Internet people routinely asked this question about PCs themselves. And certainly people asked this about "mainframes" through the 70-80s. Isn't this is a reaction to technology shifts in general. The GE Carousel of Progress is a reverse argument.https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1271834488998440961 …
I'm not asking this of social media or the internet in general, but of Twitter in particular, which embodies some very specific design choices.
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I guess I think differences between it and most other social media efforts are different by a constant factor and while the differences matter in the micro, it is likely the absence of twitter would have been filled by another effort equally "unique" when it comes to the macro.
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Was good for staying on top of development in my career field, until 2-3 weeks ago. So whatever the answer about Twitter, it likely varies over time.
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Twitter cuts the middle man. Good for meeting interesting folks. Better for rabble-rousing. Without twitter (SM) the interesting folks would still have met on forums. But massive rabble-rousing would have been much much harder.
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