Whenever a link lands me there I find tweets constrained by limits on the maximum text allowed. One can hardly state one's case let alone develop an argument in support of it.

On the one hand, it does force you to be concise. There is a certain merit to having to distil your thoughts into a tight space -- perhaps even poetic.

On the flip side, people already have incredibly short attention spans. Nobody wants to read a well-stated case. They want a bunch of vapid one-liners, preferably reaffirming their preconceptions. Twitter is an endless stream of microscopic dopamine hits.

If you wanna develop your argument, go send a letter to the editor of the newspaper, grampa. Everybody else is looking for the next great thing, which will make Xitter look positively verbose. We've already got the Tikketytoks, but who the hell has time for three whole minutes?

Since when? Nobody means nought, and I know I am but one.

"Twitter is an endless stream of microscopic dopamine hits."

Right, but what happens when the synapses die from overstimulation?

Edit: it's just occurred to me that if what you say is fact then 'Xitter' is an efficient ADHD generator.

Sorry, but what? I use it everyday and it's fine. Oh I'm sure some of the author's favorite people decided to switch to mastadon or blue sky or something, but to claim the platform is wildly destabilized is hilariously hyperbolic.

But of course the media obviously doesn't report GitHub falling apart or it being 'a dying social network'. A single speed bump or hiccup at Twitter / X and it is all over the news with the hyperboles and silly articles like this one.

It's clear that a different standard of uptime and stability is being applied only to Twitter / X since Elon bought it.

Quite a weird obsessive delusion for tabloid journalists such as the Verge to continue screaming the so-called death of Twitter / X since last year they all predicted for it to collapse a year ago and here we are a year later, it is still standing.

It isn't and it is a valid comparison.

> GitHub has gigabytes of pushes and pulls every minute, runs complex user-programmable workflows, and is the backbone of many of the world's companies.

You forgot that all of this is being run by Microsoft which makes this excuse even worse than Twitter / X's situation given the streams, spaces, videos, and over 500M+ posts per day.

I would expect GitHub to have a much better record in uptime with the help of Microsoft after the acquisition. It has gotten even worse.

You can say that but that doesn't make it true. GitHub is a massively complex behemoth orders of magnitude larger than Twitter, it simply isnt comparable. It also regularly gets shat on for its poor uptime.

With Microsoft, GitHub should have a far higher uptime than Twitter / X. But GitHub even has a worse track record of uptime with less users than Twitter / X does.

With MS footing the bill, there really is zero excuses for GitHub falling over frequently and deservedly gets shat on under that same standard of uptime that Twitter / X is under.