alt Hacker NewsTwitter is indeed the greatest communication techonlogy if you do not count the telegraph, the telephone, the television, radio, almost every single aspect of the internet, etc.
It beats shouting from your window in reach and carrier pigeons in needing less birdfeed, though.
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tbrownaw • today at 2:12 AM
> greatest communication techonlogy
1. Snail-mail
2. Public cork-boards
3. E-mail
pier25 • today at 1:20 AM
sounds like the "what have the Romans done for us?" bit
> the telegraph, the telephone, the television
None of those let a random person Hawk Tuah their way to reaching millions. Seriously: x disintermediates and offers distribution in a way no other communication tech does.
Granted you can always post a blog or whatever, but X's ambition to be the "town square" is a valid one and it does achieve it in notable ways, even if there's still 100 years worth of improvement needed.