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[–] DogMuffins@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The tech communities outside of Lemmy have all agreed that Twitter / X is technology.

This is an "appeal to authority" logical fallacy.

Personally I think an argument that "Twitter / X is technology" is a very, very difficult argument to make. It's a social media company. Is every company that has a website "tech"?

It's also a generalisation. Perhaps if twitter invented a new decentralised database that might be "tech", but marketing decisions are not.

[–] steakmeout@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Marketing decisions of a tech company are valid to be discussed. We discuss marketing and other business decisions of many tech companies and will continue to do so. Your argument is invalid - you're not the arbiter of what are and what aren't valid discussion subjects.

[–] DogMuffins@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How is twitter a tech company ?

[–] steakmeout@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

https://money.cnn.com/2014/08/22/technology/social/twitter-isis/index.html https://www.firstpost.com/tech/news-analysis/is-twitter-a-technology-platform-a-media-company-or-both-3603227.html

the debate rages on. Frankly, I think you're moronic to complain about Twitter here. They are regularly influencing tech media reporting and they launched as a tech stock.