The innuendo about Twitter continues, informed or otherwise. Twitter pre-Musk was a regular target of criticism. Everything was criticized on a routine basis. It managed, more or less, the constant stream of anything and everything.
That, strangely enough, is one of the reasons the return of blocked accounts and similar stuff flagged by Musk is being met with disbelief. Keeping it semi-civilized was the trade-off for managing an onslaught of bots, human and otherwise.
The business side of Twitter was, to put it mildly, opaque. I find it hard to believe that billions of dollars of revenue simply went into a stock buyback at the expense of profit and to nobody’s benefit. OK, maybe some debatable brilliance or lack of it there.
That’s not what’s bothering Twitter users.
- Now, the accounts of “whatever” are to be restored. The psychos, hate campaigns, Pakistani American patriots et al are back, yes or no?
- The kids from Telegram, including ISIS, etc., are coming back?
- The people who routinely broke terms of service are welcomed back with open arms?
- Those may exist/may not exist vegetables with the same writing style That Uses Caps In All The Wrong Places are back?
This is not 2016. It’s not even 2008. People who can read and even understand words in sentences don’t want to go back. After all this time, a rerun of that is not an option.
Nor should it be.
Let’s finally leave politics out of every subject on Earth. There are too many real things happening. Twitter as a free lunch for political bozos squeaking about politics could not possibly be more counterproductive.
Just a few things to consider:
- The entire Northern Hemisphere is in a murderous drought. The food chain is on the line.
- There’s a very nasty war going on in Ukraine.
- People are being squeezed broke by ridiculous cost increases for everything.
- Unaffordable energy costs are quite likely to kill a lot of people starting next month.
- There are also the daily disasters worldwide, massive crime, etc.
- Who needs paid screeching idiots?
Twitter is an instant news feed. It’s a communications resource. It’s democratic news direct from source. In a crisis, you might get through on Twitter when you can’t get through on anything else. Twitter is a very useful thing, in so many ways.
You don’t have to like reality, and it may not like you, but facts are valuable. Endless supplies of propaganda and rhetoric are worthless.
For Twitter users, the question is whether Twitter is about to become just another FOX News, yes or no?
Well, there’s always Reddit.
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