Pretty cool how he took one of the most widespread platforms for distributing information yet built and completely trashed it in a few years of petty manchild tantrums.
All he had to do was not change anything to keep twitter as a massively powerful tool, and yet.
There was an interview a few years ago where Julia Roberts was asked why she didn’t have Twitter. She didn’t know what it was and after it was explained to her, she said “Why would I want that? That’s like…shouting into the wind.”
Pretty cool how he took one of the most widespread platforms for distributing information yet built and completely trashed it in a few years of petty manchild tantrums.
All he had to do was not change anything to keep twitter as a massively powerful tool, and yet.
Getting people to realize that twitter is bad is possibly the only actual accomplishment that can be attributed to Musk himself
There was an interview a few years ago where Julia Roberts was asked why she didn’t have Twitter. She didn’t know what it was and after it was explained to her, she said “Why would I want that? That’s like…shouting into the wind.”
I wish everyone had Julia Roberts’ attitude.
Turns out Twitter itself couldn’t withstand the meddling of a magically powerful tool
The sadder part is that this completely trashed platform still hasn’t really been replaced yet.
9 times out of 10, whenever something’s going on, the link will be to a Twitter post instead of Bluesky or whatever.
I thought it had been months, but it’s been very close to two years now. He took over Oct 27th, 2022.