On Thursday, August 15, 2019 at 2:25:50 PM UTC-4, Bruce wrote:
> On Thu, 15 Aug 2019 10:01:41 -0700 (PDT), dsi1
> > wrote:
>
> >On Thursday, August 15, 2019 at 2:38:21 AM UTC-10, graham wrote:
> >> On 2019-08-15 5:40 a.m., Gary wrote:
> >> > wrote:
> >> >>
> >> >> I could use twitter but I don't.
> >> >
> >> > Same here but what's your point?
> >> >
> >> More to the point: What is the point of Twitter?
> >
> >Twitter makes it possible for 63 million of his followers to know what the President of the United States is thinking at any time of the day in real time. That's quite a remarkable thing.
>
> Indeed. All these old RFC people who hate social media are like old
> people who thought trains would make the cows' milk go sour.

More like: It's of no earthly use to me. There's nothing there that I
want to read.

If it can be expressed in 280 characters, it's facile bullshit. I can
go to Usenet if I want that. I don't need it showing up on my phone at
all hours.

Hey! You kids! Get off my lawn!

Cindy Hamilton