Black twitter, disability twitter, autism twitter, trans twitter. Everyone's emergency Gofundmes that need virality so people don't die, get thrown out on the street, or whatever else. Small press science fiction, particularly that serves niche communities. The absolute delight of watching Jwitter do Daf Yomi.
Ferguson news and Black Lives Matter. The Arab Spring and other attempts to organize movements internationally. News from Iran. Ukrainian war news. Actual fucking COVID information since nobody seems to want to deal with that on an official level anymore.
I learned as part of the meltdown that there are earthquake notification services that run substantially on tracking Twitter and recording when "Did you feel that earthquake?" trends.
And, at the same time, it served to organize and mainstream fascists and serve the destabilizing goals of the Former Guy, facilitated massive abuse movements such as those run out of K*wiF*rms, and they wouldn't run the "just block all the Nazis like is required by German law" universally because it took out too many Republican politicians, and reporting abuse (particularly transphobic abuse) was a fucking joke.
There's a lot to process.
And on a personal level, I encountered one of my favorite authors of all time there, learned about the story that made me sob because it was the first time I had been seen; I got my story into Recognize Fascism because of Twitter; I got an ancient Egyptian sourdough culture off Twitter (from the guy who invented the XBox)....
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Date: 2022-11-21 06:21 pm (UTC)Ferguson news and Black Lives Matter. The Arab Spring and other attempts to organize movements internationally. News from Iran. Ukrainian war news. Actual fucking COVID information since nobody seems to want to deal with that on an official level anymore.
I learned as part of the meltdown that there are earthquake notification services that run substantially on tracking Twitter and recording when "Did you feel that earthquake?" trends.
And, at the same time, it served to organize and mainstream fascists and serve the destabilizing goals of the Former Guy, facilitated massive abuse movements such as those run out of K*wiF*rms, and they wouldn't run the "just block all the Nazis like is required by German law" universally because it took out too many Republican politicians, and reporting abuse (particularly transphobic abuse) was a fucking joke.
There's a lot to process.
And on a personal level, I encountered one of my favorite authors of all time there, learned about the story that made me sob because it was the first time I had been seen; I got my story into Recognize Fascism because of Twitter; I got an ancient Egyptian sourdough culture off Twitter (from the guy who invented the XBox)....