Scammers are targeting Chinese-language users, harassing political dissidents and influential figures.

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      Twitter used to be an absolutely great way to keep up with breaking news, because so many reporters were there. I joined twitter during the Arab Spring, because so much that was happening was being talked about on Twitter. Same with a lot of social movements - twitter was a place where you could make something local go global. If anything was happening in the world, twitter was the place to follow it.

      But now? Now, it’s a desert of information. It’s depressing to watch a place that was so vibrant become the home of Musk shills and weird right wingers. I loved Twitter, before Elon took over. Now, it’s fading, and fast.

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      It was good place to keep up with artists and game developers. They share each other’s work in a way that is great to discover more artists and games that you didn’t know about.

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      I could say this about most social media. Im on facebook just as a last ditch way for friends and family to reach me, linkedin for keeping contact with workmates, never saw a usecase for twitter but I see folks ones below.

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      I don’t think anyone liked it. More like tolerated it because of a combination of network effects and it being less shitty than Facebook.

      At least, that’s why I was on Twitter. People I wanted to follow were there.