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Trump, Musk and Kanye Are Twitter Poisoned

nytimes.com

7 points by hrbf 3 years ago · 5 comments

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Ambolia 3 years ago

This sounds too much like "my political enemies are mentally ill".

I mean yeah people are influenced negatively by social media, but those three guys in the title already had similar personalities a long time ago, and are probably not so online like the average person, because they have to run their empires.

  • quantified 3 years ago

    Re-reading the piece, I have no idea what you mean. Of course they're on line. You can see it in their engagement with social media. The piece isn't about the quantity, how many hours a day. But a half hour a day would be enough. Glancing at feeds on the phone 10x a day for 2-3 minutes is plenty for the neurological effects to occur. Sitting on the toilet for 3 minutes 2x per day gives 6 easy minutes right there.

  • hrbfOP 3 years ago

    I believe the main point to be the common thread of increasingly infantile behavior in all of society that appears to be amplified by Twitter’s “engagement” circus.

  • quantified 3 years ago

    While Twitter would have him, Trump would spend hours tweeting (and watching TV), when he wasn't playing golf. Musk and Kanye, probably less.

leftcenterright 3 years ago

People fall for fakes on twitter all the time. I believe it has something to do with biases and tendency of these platforms to create echo chambers.

- https://twitter.com/jordanbpeterson/status/14743414826854727...

- https://news.yahoo.com/ted-cruz-falls-fake-news-182652246.ht...

- https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/joe...

- https://www.cits.ucsb.edu/fake-news/why-we-fall

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