- cross-posted to:
- technology@lemmy.world
- cross-posted to:
- technology@lemmy.world
Twitter, now X, was once a useful site for breaking news. The Baltimore bridge collapse shows those days are long gone.
Twitter, now X, was once a useful site for breaking news. The Baltimore bridge collapse shows those days are long gone.
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.
Kind of like Tiktok. Tiktok is a great place to find breaking news, but it’s not a great news source.
Oh yeah, you’ll HEAR about it.
Tiltok says in a menacing tone about any major incident or minor story.