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How Twitter lost its place as the global town square

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/07/07/twitter-dead-musk-tiktok-public-square/

Twitter is hemorrhaging relevance, and Meta's Threads made an impressive debut, but TikTok is the social media app to beat.

A series of disastrous missteps over the past year has robbed Twitter of its relevance

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Chipthemonk

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I feel old when I think “kids these days” but I do wonder if there is a deep, fundamental problem with TikTok, Reels, YouTube shorts, and such. I taught in the HS for awhile this past year and I felt like the students had a very short attention span. How are they supposed to give sustained focus to learn something when they are training their brain for short, 90 second (or shorter) bursts?