Comment by sph
19 hours ago
Are you from 2015? Companies have been announcing stuff on Twitter for a decade, and the rest of social media has been regurgitating Twitter posts for almost as long. Newspapers routinely quote Twitter. All that happened before they even renamed it to X.
I’m not saying it’s a good idea. I am saying it somehow became the single source of truth for the Internet with all that entails.
Totally agree but I think that it's fairly common for an enterprise company (like GitHub) to also have a central place that platform publishes these kinds of updates in addition to socials. I think it's odd, personally, that it's literally only been announced on twitter without a link to an announcements page or similar. Lots of enterprises still block crap like twitter and facebook, so it feels goofy to broadcast this _only_ to a source that paying customers may not even be able to access it.
You are kind of saying it's a good idea or at least a totally acceptable one.
You're saying Twitter is famous for being famous, and looking down at someone who expresses dismay at this for being behind the times.
I do not have a Twitter account. You do. It is the cesspool of humanity and one of the reason the Internet has become so shit.
Please try not to contradict my very words to make a point. That’s very Twitter-like of you.
Fair enough! Not a fan of Twitter either.
Which is why I wouldn't want to normalize it being the kind of place where company announcements are made. IMO anyone who sees it as worrying is right, and I'm glad they're not desensitized.
Just because it's been going on for a decade doesn't make it any less crazy that Twitter has become a primary source of news.
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Much more reasonable to oppose 2026 X as the default platform than it was to oppose 2015 Twitter as the default platform.
I mean reasonable both times but you obviously understand why one might have changed their mind in recent years
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