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Elon Musk has officially killed Twitter. The zombie platform lives on as X, a disfigured shell of its former self
Analysis by Oliver Darcy, CNN
Updated 3:03 AM EDT, Tue July 25, 2023
Bye bye, birdie.
Twitter, the text-based social media platform that played an outsized role on society by serving as a digital town square, was killed by its unhinged owner Elon Musk on Sunday. It was 17 years old.
A zombie Twitter, known only as X, reluctantly endures. A warped and disfigured platform, X marches on like a White Walker, an ugly shell of its former self under the command of a loathsome leader.
Whereas Twitter was once a fountain of authoritative information, X is a platform where trolls can pay a small fee to have their ugly content boosted ahead of reputable sources.
X is a platform where identity verification no longer exists and impersonation is only a paid subscription away.
X is a platform where journalists are banned and smeared while the most repellant and dishonest voices are elevated.
X is a platform where the rules are unclear and content moderation is largely an idea of the past.
X is a platform where the most important and consequential decisions are made on a whim and can happen without any warning.
And X is a platform where vital infrastructure is crumbling and the most basic of features often fail to function.
X might resemble Twitter. It might occupy the same address on the internet that Twitter once did. But make no mistake, it is not the same platform it once was — even as recently as nine months ago, when Musk took over, quickly decapitated the former leadership, and threw the company into chaos and turmoil.
That platform has ceased to be. It arguably died some time ago, before it was announced to the public by way of a sudden and disorderly rebranding.
In many ways, Musk has done to Twitter what Donald Trump did to the Republican Party: wholly remade it in his own image. At least, with Musk, the deformed entity is getting a different name, one that allows the public to perhaps separate Twitter from what Musk has transformed it into.
X will, of course, inherit all of Twitter’s business problems. Musk is the entity that has proven toxic to advertisers and much of the user base, not the widely recognized bird logo. How the billionaire ultimately turns that ship around is unclear, particularly as he faces new competition from Mark Zuckerberg and Threads.
So far, however, there is little hope Musk will be able to successfully steer the ship out of iceberg-ridden waters. He is, after all, the captain who led the ship into them — all while manically laughing alongside his inner circle while standing at the wheel.
Sir Richard Spirit
Superstar
“We don’t control the information anymore”
Now at @aj@gts.sadauskas.id.au (@ajsadauskas@aus.social)
So Elon's a "visionary" who wants to turn X into a single website where you can do everything — kinda like Yahoo! He wants his new MySpaceX portal to be a website... Where you can message people: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!_Messenger Where you can stream audio...
aus.social
journalists don't control information.
they gather it and give context to it but ultimately news companies decide what gets released to the public.
more journalist were free to speak their mind outside of approved news publications because they're the ones who controls what gets released representing their brand.
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Stop sucking boer dikk
Sir Richard Spirit
Superstar
journalists don't control information.
they gather it and give content to it but ultimately news companies decide what gets released to the public.
lol
if they control information than why do stories get killed?
You can’t say he planned on buying twitter and then say he didn’t want to overpay, that literally was his whole “plan”
He never planned on buying twitter, he was just shyt posting as always. He didn’t even have the funding or investors secured at the price he proposed.
He never thought that he would be legally forced to actually complete the deal because he’s never actually been held accountable for the things he says. Otherwise, he would have been in jail for fraud a long time ago.
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Michelle Hughes (@MegaMichelle@a2mi.social)
Elon Musk's social media site now has a deadname. #twitter #x
Sir Richard Spirit
Superstar
They’re cause they’re controlled. I’m not giving Elon any excuses, but the journalists is crying they can’t reign Supreme.
Lootha VanDraws
'The Night I Fell in Love' is the GOAT R&B album
That can be the marketing tag, like Arby's "We Have the Meats" X could be, "We Have the Hoes"
or "C'Mon, the Hoes Are Already Here"
Tombstone
The Villain
Most users hate the ‘twitter’ brand, the functionality and audience is what kept them on the platform.
What are you even talking about
How much people are currently on this earth you dumb fukk? Dumb ass really think those stats are real
grown ass man dikk riding a cac