Social-media researchers overemphasized the platform now called X for years. But now, as it rapidly changes into something new and frightening, we risk paying too little attention.
It’s just because people are being TOLD that it’s bad now. It’s literally no worse than it was 5 years ago. Twitter has always been a cesspool of human “thought”.
Agree completely. I think it might be easier for journalists (et al) to tell themselves “Elon made it bad” than it is to admit they had been contributing their efforts to a bad place all this time. Twitter was never very big, and most people avoided it like the plague, but there is a certain class of person who got addicted easily.
It’s just because people are being TOLD that it’s bad now. It’s literally no worse than it was 5 years ago. Twitter has always been a cesspool of human “thought”.
Agree completely. I think it might be easier for journalists (et al) to tell themselves “Elon made it bad” than it is to admit they had been contributing their efforts to a bad place all this time. Twitter was never very big, and most people avoided it like the plague, but there is a certain class of person who got addicted easily.