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Mike Hind's avatar

In a way, Twitter is like shady lobbying entities. Most people who have never been on the site don't realise how much it touches their lives.

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I have a really hard time with Twitter. I started on the platform in ‘07 to mostly promote a board game I was developing. I also had an account specifically for news and info trained on finance accounts for my job at an HFT. Around 2015, I finally abandoned all of my accounts as completely useless, uninformative and un-fun.

Many important and smart people that I respect have come up with arguments about why Twitter matters and why I should care. But I’m just not seeing it. Is the value of Twitter, say Network effect or historical record, such that something else couldn’t be substituted? Are the problems with Twitter technological, ideological or deeply ingrained in what humans are? Is it more than a fad, or the fad of fads?

From my perspective, it’s just another dumb thing the masses have convinced themselves means something but actually means nothing. If Twitter disappeared tomorrow what would we actually miss? What important contributions would we talk about?

I just can’t see why I should put any effort into Twitter (or any Clout game, for that matter) aside from my own ego and that’s a problem I solved decades ago: what I think simply doesn’t matter.

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