Elon Musk takes over Twitter

“Under my SJ, you will have the right to call any woman a 6 without fear of repercussions”
Someone says that Grimes is a 6
“You place my family in danger of imminent bodily harm with your chauvinism. You are permanently banned”

 

I’m old enough to remember when Ma Bell posted a thick book of assassination coordinates of everybody in the area.

 

Got any evidence to back that up? I've worked in larger newsrooms and we reduced our Twitter efforts because it wasn't worth the time spent.

 

Eh, Ma Bell got the Illcommunication

 

You need a punctuation intervention.

 

Johnny Fever knew it.

 

I thought everyone was being overly dramatic a month ago with regard to Musk's takeover.

I was wrong. This has been a way larger disaster than I predicted. I can't fathom anything replacing the daily discourse Twitter provides. Even if Twitter still isn't very close to "not existing" it's a hell of a lot closer than I would have ever imagined.

 

It’s means of communication for one thing.

It’s a brand builder, for another.

Whether it drives a ton of traffic or not - and it usually doesn't - isn't that material. It's the place where journalists hang out for hours.

 

Journalists can do what they want with their free time. IMO the app is pretty much an echo chamber anymore, with the same few hundred “big names” tweeting and retweeting about the same stuff. But if they choose scrolling Twitter all night long over watching Jeopardy, more power to them.

Media companies were reducing their Twitter efforts long before Elon Musk bought it. A lot of times their Twitter feeds are now just headline feeds or maybe RTs if their reporters’ tweets. Maybe my former employers were short-sighted and lazy, which I wouldn’t put behind them.

 

The practice of journalism would improve without Twitter.

I'm not sure how some national reporters function without it, though. It's where they break their news.

 

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