Twitter, now X, was once a useful site for breaking news. The Baltimore bridge collapse shows those days are long gone.
  • amzd
    28•3 months ago

    Line up a few years’ worth of tragedies and disasters, and the online conversations about them will reveal their patterns.

    Great start, sadly the rest of the article doesn’t include any comparable patterns or statistics that the writer claims they see, just rage bait quotes from tweets by other rage baiters

    • AggressivelyPassiveEnglish
      19•3 months ago

      To be fair, there are no statistics. You can’t just query Twitter anymore, at least not for a reasonable price. So the only source is Musk, which is sketchy at best.