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Will Twitter Be The Downfall of Humanity?
Twitter is an interesting place.
On this site you can post a 280 snippet about absolutely anything. When you think about the site, it shouldn’t work. It’s essentially mundane, yet the beauty lies in its simplicity.
You can say whatever you want in those 280 words. With our decreasing attention span, Twitter is a fantastic place to get quick and easy information. There’s only one problem with this.
A lot of the stuff that is posted there is worthless.
280 characters is not a lot. Unless you want to fire out short and sweet tweets, Twitter is not the place to go to muse on the writing of Socrates or Seneca.
The reality is that Twitter is more suited to the sort of quick and easy political propaganda and ramblings we see on an almost daily basis from Donald Trump.
Whenever I think of Twitter now, an image of Trump furiously typing his latest message after being insulted by some segment on CNN springs to mind.
For Trump, Twitter is an easy win. He can get his message out as quickly as possible to his hoards of supporters who will lap it up, and most importantly, there is nothing holding him back from doing so.
Twitter and other forms of social media have levelled the playing field when it comes to…
