I was surprised to see Twitter noted as a good place to share thoughts, I think mainly because it’s rare I hear anyone say a good word about Twitter. I don’t use it, as my impressions of twitter are:
seems like a lot of toxic arguments, ad hominen attacks, straw man arguments etc etc unless you heavily filter to only be communicating with people who already agree with pretty much everything you say
the word limit is too short to be able to explain anything with nuance, which promotes more straw man arguments because commenters take the worst possible interpretation of what’s been said and then argue against that, which then causes the OP to be upset that they’ve been misinterpreted, so they react badly and so on and so on.
Then again, I know some people I generally respect use it. Am I missing anything here?
I was surprised to see Twitter noted as a good place to share thoughts, I think mainly because it’s rare I hear anyone say a good word about Twitter. I don’t use it, as my impressions of twitter are:
seems like a lot of toxic arguments, ad hominen attacks, straw man arguments etc etc unless you heavily filter to only be communicating with people who already agree with pretty much everything you say
the word limit is too short to be able to explain anything with nuance, which promotes more straw man arguments because commenters take the worst possible interpretation of what’s been said and then argue against that, which then causes the OP to be upset that they’ve been misinterpreted, so they react badly and so on and so on.
Then again, I know some people I generally respect use it. Am I missing anything here?
EA twitter is great.