Point 1
With Twitter, you struggle to verify who is saying what they are saying.
With people like Trump, or Elon you know where the message is coming from. But with lots of other "news" it comes from unverified people, but, if the message resonates, its shared and shared again as if its fact.
You get organisations/people "acting" like news organisations, or, trusted people spewing crap. and its hard to trace back.
so thats the issue.
With mainstream media, or, other media, you know who's saying it and why. you can trace motivation with relative ease. with twitter its much harder
Point 2
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A couple things about this argument:
1) Maybe not
2) if you are saying that there will be a replacement for twitter which is good, why do are you saying its so good for it to die in the first place? I don't really understand this line of thinking. Do you think in general having a marginally more decentralized information dissemination platform like twitter relative to MSM is a bad thing?
I'm not saying the replacement is good. I'm saying it'll have one.
Like I said, "my gazillion percent is <mostly> jokey."
I dont like twitter. I don't like social media driven news. I am happy when one dies. But twitter dying won't do much to change the general malaise.
Twitter dying = good
The fact that it's probably going to be replaced by something similar, or, people will go to some other social media source = bad
There's optimism in that twitters death might cause some people to realise its a corporate mouthpiece...but thats unlikely.