On: Uganda bans social media ahead of presidential election

[kyleblarson]

The tiny fraction of the populous who spend hours a day on Twitter might have panic attacks, the rest of us who realize that Twitter (and social media in general) is a cesspool of toxicity and who never use it would carry on like normal.

[undefined1 → kyleblarson]

It's a tiny fraction, but they punch far above their weight. The discourse from there bubbles up to the news media and the entire culture.

[jsonne → kyleblarson]

The bigger effect is that many journalists get their scoops from Twitter. The legacy media would have a difficult time.

[mothsonasloth → jsonne]

Good, they can go back to more traditional methods, of paying professional reporters to be in their local areas for those scoops. Rather than scrape what some person tweeted.

[trident5000 → kyleblarson]

Id like that to be true but Twitter has 400 million users which is a large chunk of the developed world.

[sergiotapia → trident5000]

The VAST majority of twitter posts are created by a tiny percentage of people.

[andai → trident5000]

A sad week for the nsfw art community.