Twitter is no worse today than five years ago. But it’s certainly also no better. The discussion about which billionaires we want manipulating public discourse is outright insanity
I don’t want to call it X because it’s a shit shit shit name
Previously, it was a shithole.
Now, it’s a Nazi shithole.Twitter was always bad. It is of course way worse now, but it is silly to have any nostalgic and reverential feelings for it.
I hadn’t been there in a long while, but a friend sent a link to what he said was a funny tweet. It was, but the responses were just awful, and they all had blue checkmarks.
Every single inserted ad was for right-wing grifts (crypto, t-shirts, gold coins, etc) or awful right-wing politicians looking angry or posing with guns.
Noped right out.
I pointed it out to my wife, but she says the journalists she follows are still all there. 🤷🏻♂️
I present: Xitter
“X” in Chinese is pronounced “sh”, so I approve.
Hey, don’t rewrite history - twitter was always notoriously bad, under Elon it surely got even worse though.
I agree with everything except the “got even worse” part. It was always a steaming turd.
2 things can be true at once about something, imagine that.
I think the “even” in that quote adequately implies that…
It was, but now it’s a steaming turd with Nazis and KKK apologists.
A few Nazis and KKK apologists convinced a shit-ton of marketers, influencers, Karens, and other predatory users to leave.
On balance, Nazis and Klukkers didn’t make it any worse than it was.
There is simple solution: just ignore it. Don’t refer to it in any way.
Xcrement. It’s called Xcrement.
Sorry twitter was always trash
It really is saying something that it’s waaay worse now.
Don’t call it anything. Ignore it and maybe it will go away.
I mean lets not overdo it the algorithms were becoming very trash before it was bought up but it was usable. Peak twitter was like 2017
Calling twix, or xitter! You can also call it Elon’s X (he has many exes, so this one fits in)
They have $44 billion dollar bills to wipe away the tears.
I mean, it’s not like twitter was ever a beacon of glory, pre-Elon twitter was still twitter
Twitter was a turd. X is a turd marinaded in diarrhea sauce.
Such poetry. It brings a tear to my eye
Ok well maybe a beacon of glory is a bit out there for Twitter, but there was a time where it was actually cool and unique.
Like back in the day where you could interact with it over plain SMS lol
I feel old.
My poor parents phone bill when I started using Twitter over SMS…
That was only the first year or two at most iirc
At least 4 years. I was using a flip phone until around 2010, and that’s how I normally use Twitter when I wasn’t at a computer.
