On Twitter, the conversation was never particularly cordial. Often, the loudest opinions drown out the subtler, more nuanced ones. After all, whether the debate is over transgender children or baseball, it is much simpler to rage-tweet at a perceived enemy than it is to look for common ground.This isn’t going to change any time soon, according to the chaos that has engulfed Twitter the company and the platform since Elon Musk took over. In fact, if it gets better at all, it’s likely to get considerably worse before getting better.
Just over a week ago, Musk and his group of tech industry partisans showed up at Twitter prepared to destroy the blue bird’s nest and swiftly rebuild it in line with his vision.He started mass layoffs at the San Francisco-based business on Friday, firing around half of its employees through email to bring it back to employment levels not seen since 2014.
Throughout, he tweeted a variety of vulgar memes, half-jokes, SpaceX rocket launches, and possibly-possibly-not ideas for Twitter that he appeared to be developing on the platform in real time. In a Twitter conversation with author Stephen King, who said, “If it gets instituted, I’m gone like Enron,” he appeared to immediately back away from the concept of charging users $20 per month for the “blue check” and a few other services.
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