Scotland’s librarians body steps back from Twitter due to ‘hateful content’
September 23, 2024
Hopefully the first in a long line of public services to do so
by Saltire_Blue
5 comments
As a member of CILIP(S) I am pleased and fair to say it is about time. The problem we now have is that all our major social media platforms are owned by large US firms, in fact, it is only two: Facebook (Meta) and Elon Musk and neither is particularly appealing to use. TikTok… well, I don’t need to explain, same for Telegram and that peer-to-peer initiative from some years back seems to have disappeared as well.
LinkedIn is owned by Microsoft and probably more suited to a professional association, but what we really need is a new network for the UK/Europe.
So many organisations in my sector are backing off of Twitter right now. They’re leaving their accounts active so people can’t claim the usernames for nefarious purposes, but they’re either not posting anything, or only posting stuff that’s going out as a press release and not doing any interaction with users. If you look at this kind of “soft quitting,” the Twitter exodus is probably a lot bigger than the raw account numbers would suggest.
Twitter deserves to collapse. It’s become a mouthpiece for the worst people in society.
It is genuinely quite funny see how much Must has managed to screw up the running of a company, I think its one of the most visible examples that is correcting the persistent myth that the silicon valley libertarian investor types are a bunch of geniuses, they are mostly just privileged rich idiots.
A random public body with 5k followers leaving a platform is news now? I won’t sleep tonight knowing this has happened.
5 comments
As a member of CILIP(S) I am pleased and fair to say it is about time. The problem we now have is that all our major social media platforms are owned by large US firms, in fact, it is only two: Facebook (Meta) and Elon Musk and neither is particularly appealing to use. TikTok… well, I don’t need to explain, same for Telegram and that peer-to-peer initiative from some years back seems to have disappeared as well.
LinkedIn is owned by Microsoft and probably more suited to a professional association, but what we really need is a new network for the UK/Europe.
So many organisations in my sector are backing off of Twitter right now. They’re leaving their accounts active so people can’t claim the usernames for nefarious purposes, but they’re either not posting anything, or only posting stuff that’s going out as a press release and not doing any interaction with users. If you look at this kind of “soft quitting,” the Twitter exodus is probably a lot bigger than the raw account numbers would suggest.
Twitter deserves to collapse. It’s become a mouthpiece for the worst people in society.
It is genuinely quite funny see how much Must has managed to screw up the running of a company, I think its one of the most visible examples that is correcting the persistent myth that the silicon valley libertarian investor types are a bunch of geniuses, they are mostly just privileged rich idiots.
A random public body with 5k followers leaving a platform is news now? I won’t sleep tonight knowing this has happened.