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futuretrain · 2 years ago

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i really should just mute the word 'twitter' on here because i don't wanna seem like i want to defend that goddamn website lmao but a lot of the things people on here say abt it fall into the same "usamerican citizen going 'haha someone actually uses whatsapp like a weirdo just text'" category of clueless because it misses the fact people from all over the world use it in many different ways

#like. do we not remember that a huge part of twitter's current success is due to its role in the arab spring #believe it or not but it is actually used in way more places than just north america and western europe and is an invaluable-#and frankly thus far irreplaceable site for quick developing situation updates from conflict and disaster zones #is it good that this infrastructure that is privately owned is depended on this much? absolutely not #but it's happened and we haven't yet fixed it so the pointing and laughing sometimes feels almost malicious?#there's something to be said about the fact that when some of the scariest days in my life happened and the internet was shut down so tight #even vpns were barely working the intl community on twitter did *a ton* to spread the news and got it to where it wouldn't reach otherwise #and if you dislike twitter specifically for allowing political discourse please just post your boomer grill meme and move on #twitter #ń rant

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