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Taylor Lorenz Jul 7, 2023

How Twitter lost its place as the global town square. A series of disastrous missteps over the past year has robbed Twitter of its relevance, while TikTok has begun fulfilling Twitter’s core functions
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/07/07/twitter-dead-musk-tiktok-public-square/

How Twitter lost its place as the global town square

Twitter is hemorrhaging relevance, and Meta's Threads made an impressive debut, but TikTok is the social media app to beat.

The Washington Post

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Eric Nusbaum

@taylorlorenz I struggle with your viewpoint of Twitter having a "arcane follow-based social network".

While I appreciate the ability to explore and find new people to follow (which I think is a major missing feature of Mastodon), personally I want to only "see" the information I've requested to see on my timeline, not what an algo "thinks" I want to see.

I think TikTok is cute, but when it comes to opinions/information, *I* want to curate what I consume.