Ben Shapiro explains why Twitter has been ruined on Logan Paul podcast Impaulsive (YouTube)American commentator Ben Shapiro has revealed why he thinks social media giant Twitter has turned \u201ctoxic\u201d in the 121st episode of Logan Paul\u2019s \u2018Impaulsive\u2019 podcast. Shapiro has made a living sharing his opinions on a host of political and trending topics across his career, with many of his discussions taking place across major social media sites. On September 9, the American commentator guest-starred on Logan Paul\u2019s long-running talk show Impaulsive, taking aim at Twitter and how it\u2019s changed \u2013 for the worse \u2013 in recent years. \u201cIt\u2019s a disaster, a disaster,\u201d Shapiro said when asked if he thought social media as a platform for discourse was a problem. \u201cI think it depends on the method of distribution, if you\u2019re talking about somewhere like YouTube, that\u2019s just a place where people are basically viewing content, in the comments section maybe you get a little bit of conversation, but not really. \u201cTwitter is really bad, Twitter is a toxic place. It\u2019s a place to dunk and be dunked upon. It is not a place where you\u2019re going to get a long argument about nuance. That\u2019s not what it\u2019s for, it\u2019s deliberately created for short attention spans in now less than 280 characters.\u201d \u201cI don\u2019t have the ability to have a substantive discussion about the solutions to climate change with you in 280 characters,\u201d he continued. \u201cInstead, the tweets that get all the retweets and the incentive systems is the funnier you are, which very often coincides with the nastier you are, the more likes and retweets you get.\u201d Shapiro told podcast co-hosts Logan Paul and Mike Majlak he believes there\u2019s been a major \u201cmood shift\u201d on the social media platform in recent times, that has seen Twitter move away from \u201ca chat room with your friends\u201d to something a little more toxic. For mobile users, video segment starts at 15:03. \u201cI disengaged in tremendous ways with Twitter, I used to think it was a lot more fun. Now it\u2019s \u2018You know what we\u2019re going to do, we\u2019re going to go through your entire history and dig up some dumbass thing you said ten years ago and take it out of context\u2019. \u201cThat\u2019s what happened to Kevin Hart, it\u2019s happened to a bunch of people. It happened to Sarah Jeong at the New York Times, and it happened to James Gunn. It\u2019s this constant attempt to destroy somebody with something they said.\u201d Twitter was just one of many topics that Shapiro covered with the Impaulsive hosts earlier this week, but it seemed like one that he was very passionate about. As for Paul, his rematch showdown with KSI is looming ever closer. The fight\u2019s undercard also just received a boost, with brother Jake Paul now confirmed to be touching gloves with American rapper Soulja Boy ahead of the main event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Ben Shapiro explains why Twitter has been ruined on Logan Paul podcast Impaulsive (YouTube)American commentator Ben Shapiro has revealed why he thinks social media giant Twitter has turned \u201ctoxic\u201d in the 121st episode of Logan Paul\u2019s \u2018Impaulsive\u2019 podcast. Shapiro has made a living sharing his opinions on a host of political and trending topics across […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44991\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}