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The slow death of Twitter is measured in disasters like the Baltimore bridge collapse (www.vox.com)

submitted 7 months ago by jeffw@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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Twitter, now X, was once a useful site for breaking news. The Baltimore bridge collapse shows those days are long gone.

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[+] Globeparasite@lemmy.world -59 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (3 children)

Twitter, now X, was once a useful site for breaking news.

the fuck ? No it never was, the finest info you ever could find there was thinly veiled holocaust denial ? If journalists really think fucking twitter was ever an important source of news that explain the downfall of journalism

[–] pjwestin@lemmy.world 35 points 7 months ago

What are you talking about? It was the go-to app for journalists for a decade. They could live report from events in a simple, chronological thread, or collect eye witness reports by quote tweeting personal accounts. I followed the Charlottesville and January 6th riots in real time by reading journalists threads. There was a lot of trival or even harmful bullshit on Twitter, but the way journalists used it was a huge positive.

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 22 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

It wasn't the source of the news, but where people would consume news. Most of what the site was actually good for was making a notice with a link to a real article. Like an RSS feed with extra steps.

That's why I never got into it. The main way it was actually useful was still totally unnecessary.

[–] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Kind of like Tiktok. Tiktok is a great place to find breaking news, but it's not a great news source.

[–] Krauerking@lemy.lol 3 points 7 months ago

Oh yeah, you'll HEAR about it.

Tiltok says in a menacing tone about any major incident or minor story.

[–] bartolomeo@suppo.fi 9 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I'm not sure if the Arab spring could have happened without Twitter.