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Ok_Sir5926 t1_jc2hqey wrote

Reply to comment by skilliard7 in Twitter’s $42,000-per-Month API Prices Out Nearly Everyone | Tiers will start at $500,000 a year for access to 0.3 percent of the company’s tweets. Researchers say that’s too much for too little data by Hrmbee

Why the incessant need to replace it? Just stop using it, and then touch grass. There's no biological requirement to tell the world about your thoughts, 140 chars at a time.

There's no reason you need something "better." If it's bad...stop. Don't look for a replacement for the bad....cuz it's just more bad.

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MustacheInterpreter t1_jc2ih4d wrote

Just an aside: Ukraine uses Twitter to put its cause directly before the world. Nascent rebellions, such as in Iran, do also. Twitter is about far more than me showing you what I'm eating.

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Ok_Sir5926 t1_jc2isn0 wrote

It's a method they choose to use because there's people on it.

Are you implying there's no way to talk to a large audience of people in 2023 without a specific free social media platform?

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MustacheInterpreter t1_jc2jlsb wrote

Twitter for now is an unmediated source of direct communication to an audience without paywalls, tweaks by journalists or their employers. For now. That's lifeblood to these movements. I'm not here to argue with you. Ukraine has itself said the same thing.

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Ok_Sir5926 t1_jc2jxfz wrote

I'm not here to argue with YOU. You decided to reply to me. I was talking to another person.

Have a great day.

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skilliard7 t1_jc2iigb wrote

You do realize most people use it to keep up on things they follow, but don't post, right? It's a nice centralized location.

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Ok_Sir5926 t1_jc2jkei wrote

You know it hasn't existed for very long? There were things before Twitter, there will be things after Twitter. People found out about shit long before tweets existed. I probably won't follow the goal posts on this one, so no need to move them again. I have a Twitter account. I've logged into it MAYBE 5 times. I still keep up on "things that I follow." I simply use other resources.

Oh, I also don't give a shit about the Musk drama. I find it funny people get so worked up about it. Doesn't mean the concept of the app is worth a shit.

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legendofsteve t1_jc3io57 wrote

“But if I can’t use heroin what else can I use??”

Twitter is a drug. No less. People are addicted to it and are going to want to replace it. I agree they shouldn’t but there’s no logic in an addiction.

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ISAMU13 t1_jc48h0f wrote

The Suboxone of Reddit is much better.

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tundey_1 t1_jc2yyrk wrote

>Just stop using it, and then touch grass.

It's not mutually exclusive to use Twitter and to "touch grass".

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