Twitter must die

[shadowkat]

That's it. I HATE TWITTER.

No one listens. Everyone makes tag-lines. And as far as I can tell no one actually DOES anything but TWEET.

Tweeting is easy. Action is hard.

If you want to help?

DONATE. READ. LISTEN. PROTEST. WRITE TO YOUR LEGISLATORS, PRIME MINISTERS, REPRESENTATIVES, ETC. SIGN PETITIONS.

You can't change the world on a fucking chat platform.

(I'm thinking of cancelling my Twitter account, which isn't a big deal, it's only 20 people and I don't know half of them. If anyone says anything interesting someone will tell me about it.)

Comments

[atpo_onm]

Fascinating how coincidences occur... just yesterday, there was a news article posted wherein some political figure had just been trashed on twitter, and I thought, "Ya know, if people wanted to do something of genuine additional value to all the protesting that is going on, a great idea would be to circulate the recommendation for people to cancel their twitter accounts. The idea was stupid to start with-- just how much careful thought can you communicate in a sentence or two, really? Bah!"

You say you want a revolution? Here's one that would take a few taps of a finger-- by a few million people.

[shadowkat]

I don't think it would matter that much. There's over a 100 social media platforms similar to it out there. My niece is on snapchat. It's just another take on IM chat platform.

Also, people love it. (eyeroll)

I just get into fights with people - because I have a tendency to either fact-check or ask for clarification, when what people want on Twitter is validation and strokes. It's not an information sharing site - it's a "look how wonderful and cool I am - see!" site. Which is why the idiot in the White House adores it.