Suppression of links on Twitter and replacement with decontextualized videos and rambling, unedited "takes" seems very calibrated to make its users gradually dumber. The entire benefit of Twitter was as a news aggregation service that acted as a portal to find comprehensive knowledge and information. Its probably lowering the collective IQ at this point.

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It was making me do less. I think of that place like a drug now. Another friend of mine quit and with no X shipped a whole iOS app. It’s fucked up, honestly