Twitter is formally 20 years previous. In one other actuality, that may make me type of nostalgic. I have been lurking and scrolling and tweeting for 16 years; most of my grownup life. There was a time when Twitter was a spot the place some web strangers grew to become my IRL associates, after I was excited to “live-tweet”. When my infinitely extra well-adjusted associates would ship me memes, I might smugly say “I noticed that on Twitter days in the past.”
Twitter stopped being that place a very long time in the past, however I haven’t got any nostalgia for it. I do not actually really feel something in any respect, truly.
As a result of I can already hear the feedback: Sure, I am nonetheless on X. I do not spend as a lot time there as I did a decade in the past, but it surely’s nonetheless numerous time, an unhealthy quantity, if I am being trustworthy. My job is to report on social media firms, so I preserve (doom)scrolling. That is what I inform myself anyway.
A couple of of my favourite posters are nonetheless round. Dril’s still got it. The memes are nonetheless, sometimes, good, although X’s suggestion algorithm appears to desire pointing me towards limitless AI slop, boring sizzling takes from thirsty mid-tier tech execs and blatant engagement bait. X’s algorithm — what little we can learn about it, anyway — now depends on Grok’s predictions about what you will like.The identical Holocaust-loving Grok that has spewed racism and referred to itself as MechaHitler and declared Elon Musk “the single best particular person in trendy historical past.” The identical Grok that allegedly generated hundreds of pictures of child abuse material. Hey @grok is that true?
X is not Twitter but it surely’s additionally not not-Twitter. Final yr, a web-based market startup purchased the 560-pound Twitter chook that when adorned the firm’s San Francisco workplace and blew it up in a Nevada desert surrounded by Tesla CyberTrucks as a part of an elaborate publicity stunt. Dumb? Sure. But in addition a someway becoming adieu for “Larry.”
It has been 20 years since Jack Dorsey despatched the first-ever tweet, which was by no means even a great tweet anyway. It has been 5 years, by the approach, since he turned that tweet into an NFT (bear in mind NFTs??) and auctioned it for practically $3 million. It is now functionally worthless. One other chapter in Dorsey’s confusing, complicated legacy.
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