I have never understood the concept of Twitter and such, is it basically like Live Journal with a text limit ? How do the interactions even work ? Just people saying something unprompted and then people just talk?
I’m upvoting you purely for describing Twitter as “Live Journal with a text limit”. That is exactly what it is and with infinitely less privacy or conversational value.
Ahhh that makes a lot of sense okay! I just don’t understand how businesses and establishments claim to say that without Twitter they don’t get lifesaving information. What lifesaving information lives on Twitter ? Is this just an exaggeration? Something about weather alerts ? I get weather info just fine without twitter, like on live news articles on their respective websites
Oh, for that use case then Twitter is a bit different. Information on Twitter moves fast and you can get quick, bite-sized updates on a company or event (via tags) much quicker than most sites. The ease of sharing information made it very popular for things like announcing updates on website/app down times or catching up on election news for example.