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Twitter was instrumental in the Arab Spring[0]. Many organize and plan protests on there, trying to recreate that initial success. Twitter is a mirror of the real world, albeit a very bad one. People who say 'Twitter is just text' have obviously never watched whole 30-minutes news article videos on Twitter, so it's not 'just text', it's full of rich media.

The Russia-Ukraine war is all over the platform, for better or worse. It annoys me that people are resorting to disaster tourism, popcorn in their hands, whilst watching the world burn. Stop being an armchair activist, and get out there and make a dent whilst you still can. A small retweet of something you think is important means nothing in the grand scheme of things.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_media_and_the_Arab_Spri...

parent kosasbest 4 years ago

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