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No thanks. Social networks are non essential. Twitter and Substack Notes can go away tomorrow and no one will bat an eyelid. In these cases, people just want to go to a website or a mobile app, click around and have some foolish fun for sometime. Banking networks need protocols, not social media, which is intrinsically about dumb fun. That is why Mastodon and these things will never be as popular.


You seem to have no recollection of how Twitter has played an outsized role in fast reporting on breaking events, such as the Arab Spring.


I watched the arab spring unfold on aljazeera's livestream, what was going on with twitter?


Twitter is not important. Breaking news were always there on TV from the beginning of time.




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