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Comment by hooande | Hacker News Reader

if twitter is so bad, why do you keep using it?

To be fair, we're all "using" Twitter somehow now. It became impossible to ignore when mainstream news would now lead based on what people have tweeted.

That's the thing: it's become extremely deeply embedded in our society, since it's damn catnip to 24-hour news (which, IMO, was the originator of this problem - they need content, now, and anything which provides is thrown up there).

> if twitter is so bad, why do you keep using it?

Did you read what I said? I have stopped using Twitter. I don't tweet, I don't have the app, I don't engage in anything what happens there now.

I just occasionally peek in to see if I'm missing out on anything and surprisingly I don't. As a result I see myself (unconsciously) check Twitter less and less.

> I have stopped using Twitter.

> I just occasionally [use Twitter] to see if . . .

Hm.

When I switch TV programs I might view a program for 1 minute before I decide that I don’t like the content. The next day when I look for something to watch I might tune into the same TV station again for a minute before moving on. I am not a “user” (viewer) of that TV station despite checking it out for approximately a minute each.

My current Twitter “usage” is the same concept. You decide if you call this a Twitter user or not.

Ever tried smoking?

With mainstream news being so propagandist, only way to keep up with actual news is Twitter: people bypassing curators and directly & efficiently stating what happens.

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