Without Verification, What Is the Point of Elon Musk’s Twitter? | Electronic Frontier Foundation
▻https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/03/what-made-pre-elon-musk-twitter-relevant
Twitter’s utility wasn’t in how many people used it, it was in who used it. From Hollywood celebrities to heads of state, journalists, activists, and so many more—Twitter was more valuable as a source than it was as a platform.
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Je ne sais pas si je dois être étonné ou pas du fait que l’EFF considère que ce qui rendait Twitter intéressant, c’est l’aspect qui réintroduisait le plus la verticalité de la parole (« dans les milieux autorisés, on s’autorise à penser… ») :
It’s partially what made Twitter so beloved by journalists: it was harder to accidentally include a tweet by a joke account in your reporting. It also saved a lot of journalists from hunting down an email address or a public relations person when they wanted to contact someone—far easier to just send a DM. Furthermore, journalists with the checkmarks were clearly also who they said they were, making it more likely they’d get responses from subjects who could tell that they were legitimate reporters.
On s’en branle pas mal, non, de ce qui fait que les journalistes aiment Twitter ?