This is why Twitter is important

[Hanno Labuschagne]

This is why Twitter is important

What do a cybersecurity researcher building a system to generate alerts for detecting security threats and vulnerabilities, a wildfire watcher who tracks the spread of forest fires, and public health professionals trying to predict enrollment in health insurance exchanges have in common?

They all rely on analysing data from Twitter.

[The Conversation]

 

[Mekon]

Can be used wisely and for good but as we all know the world is full of morons, dickheads, azzholes, douches, ballbags, biatches, THOTS, and possibly the worst of all of then.....self absorbed content creators. So losing all of them would be great.

 

[BBSA]

Can be used wisely and for good but as we all know the world is full of morons, dickheads, azzholes, douches, ballbags, biatches, THOTS, and possibly the worst of all of then.....self absorbed content creators. So losing all of them would be great.

Just do not follow them, as simple as that.

 

[borro]

 

[Vorastra]

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Bruh

 

[Mekon]

Just do not follow them, as simple as that.

I don't do Twitter. For the reasons above

 

[Botha22]

"What the world loses if Twitter dies" - nothing, another will take its place.

 

[zulucat]

Nothing

 

[PaulMurkin]

EskomSePush (and others) get their info by scraping Twitter...

 

[_TrXtR_]

Investors would have to actually work before making investment decisions.

 

[r00igev@@r]

If twitter dies we can all return to the eighties. Great music, great TV and great movies.

 

[yebocan]

nothing really...maybe , just maybe more will realise that it is just an distraction for sheep...maybe bring a bit more awareness to some, to see how they have been caught in a loop ... the old game, us vs them...

 

[BBSA]

I don't do Twitter. For the reasons above

Your virtue signalling is noted.

 

[gregmcc]

Nothing. Hurry up and close the cesspool.

 

[Virex]

 

[Kosmik]

This is why Twitter is important

What do a cybersecurity researcher building a system to generate alerts for detecting security threats and vulnerabilities, a wildfire watcher who tracks the spread of forest fires, and public health professionals trying to predict enrollment in health insurance exchanges have in common?

They all rely on analysing data from Twitter.

[The Conversation]

Then should it really take a private company to make it so?

 

[Danie_V]

The point is much of what is written around hashtag analysis can be done just as easily elsewhere too. Yes the geolocation paired with that I'm sure is useful and interesting, but the trend is to anyway move away from disclosing geolocation (accurately that is). The downside to having "just Twitter" is we become too accustomed to it being there, and we don't harness alternatives. We entrench a closed garden ecosystem. It is time we thought to achieve the same but with a variety of systems, in other words enforce more interoperability and data exchange. Companies like Twitter and Facebook just love it when users get locked-in and dependent on them. The break from Twitter is just what is needed to think more broadly and to future-proof what we design.

 

[Mekon]

Your virtue signalling is noted.

It's called an opinion

 

[BBSA]

It's called an opinion

Yes, your virtue is noted

 

[Insint]

Just do not follow them, as simple as that.

The problem is there are the morons follows the morons.

Then we get insanely stupid issues like poloticians that cannot define what a women is.

Which makes this world clown world because morons follows morons.