An estimated 47 million twitter 'users' are bots. Russian adds are the profit, and the profit motive. Better headline, has Putin turned Twitter?
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Delete your Twitter. Whatever it seems to be giving you is lost in the hours of lost time you pay. Leave it, leave it now.
So I guess not shutting down Trump has paid off. So glad Twitter investors have made money dividing the country. Congrats.
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Twitter is a contradiction. It is the greatest medium of communication invented, while at the same time it is a flaming garbage barge of banality.
There are times where I wish the platform never existed. Most of the time something will balance that out, though recently it’s heavier in the garbage barge column.
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It's time to pass laws holding Twitter and Facebook and other uncurated news sources to account for purveying Russian propaganda and disinformation. Barring that, these sites just need to go away before they destroy our democracy;.
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It's time for socially responsible investors and mutual funds to divest Twitter and Facebook holdings. Both companies have helped inflame the deep divides in America, and have made money doing it, especially when selling ads to Russian agents. Zuckerberg and Dorsey might be tech disruptive, but are actually destroying civil discourse, and putting America in peril.
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So tired of Twitter.
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Twitter is a Trump Whisperer.
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Donald has so sullied Twitter, with his globally-publicized, often poorly-written, and near-always-disgusting tweets. His short, abbreviated communiques reflect his similar mind. I'm not sure Twitter can recover. And I'm worried about me too.
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When will our infatuation with these Silicon Valley “businesses” end? Jack Dorsey is often hailed as a visionary entrepreneur, but he and Twitter, along with many others like Uber, and even Amazon have reeked havoc on our society and myriad industries without proving they have sustainable business models. But yet venture capitalists and Wall Street continue to support them while ignoring even the most basic business metrics. They would never survive or be so “innovative” if they were collectively held to the sane confines most entrepreneurs were held to.
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we created this system. the social media giants are just feeding us what we want. it's incumbent upon us as individuals to mold it for good purpose through eduction and true financial independence of working people. people need to stop turning things over to Facebook, twitter and congress and actually shoulder some social responsibility and stop blaming faceless entities for doing exactly what we want them to do.
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Twitter sells its soul to Trump to become profitable.
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