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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The fact that I can’t get any traction on a post that isn’t a screenshot of an article with no link to said article totally defeats the purpose for me

this is how I feel using it at this point 

also its been whittled down to the most hard core of maniacs (and also the vice president)

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