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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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[-] bartolomeo@suppo.fi 9 points 7 months ago

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

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 1 points 7 months ago

The thing that happened 13 years ago and did nothing but overthrow Gaddafi, a man who, even if all criticism of his regime is valid, was replaced with something much worse because NATO doesn't actually care about democracy for brown people?

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