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And yet, if any internet space deserves our sincere respect, it’s Twitter, which has functioned more like a “real” public square than any other social media platform. This is the platform that gave birth to the hashtag, with all its infinite and often surprising uses. It has aided the rise of countless social movements, from the #ArabSpring resistance to #BlackLivesMatter to #MeToo. Not all of them have been good — see Gamergate, Pizzagate, QAnon, et al — but they have all, unequivocally, mattered.

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Originally posted by JAYNEZTOWN:
Weird stuff to cry about

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And yet, if any internet space deserves our sincere respect, it’s Twitter, which has functioned more like a “real” public square than any other social media platform. This is the platform that gave birth to the hashtag, with all its infinite and often surprising uses. It has aided the rise of countless social movements, from the #ArabSpring resistance to #BlackLivesMatter to #MeToo. Not all of them have been good — see Gamergate, Pizzagate, QAnon, et al — but they have all, unequivocally, mattered.

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I never paid much attention to twitter but it has at times briefly got my attention for example when Hashtag # Banislam almost got trending...until it was suppressed or shadow banned. If I do check twitter its usually for breaking news on an event or shooting or maybe something on a Science discovery feat or Bio experiment, engineering or science research paper account. After a while I replaced breaking news from twitter with bitchute, rumble, liveleak, gettr, heavy dot com etc I might check JamesWoods once in a while to see if he's unbanned or check what stupidity Leftwing Joss Whedon or Rightwing Adam Baldwin are posting. But for me it hasd not been the voice of the town square, it is Not an open chat news and debate public space, not for a long time.

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