Elon Musk Offers to Buy a Broken Website: Twitter Is Beyond Repair

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4. Twitter is not real life.

"Combine all the numbers, and 3 percent of the American population creates 90 percent of all tweets."

I have been telling people this and telling people this. "Well, I know people agree with me, because on Twitter . . ."

Then when, say, a Youngkin gets elected, it's all, "How did this happen?!"

Twitter - particularly political Twitter - is a gigantic bubble where political junkies and media figures participate in a giant circle jerk that the overwhelming majority of America takes no part in and does not give a shit about.

The fact the media respond so sensitively to Twitter shows you this is less about journalism and more about what's going on in their very small, self-interested, self-promoting little world. WTF are journalists doing tweeting at each other and getting into internet slap fights all the time? These aren't serious journalistic figures. These are mildly educated celebrities who mistake visibility for importance.

I loathe Musk as a person, but I am loving the jimmy rustling happening this week. And all this panic and terror among media and political types proves my point - tech monopolies and social media companies should not have this much power over the public square.

It's fun when the people we hate get deplatformed and censored. But the pendulum always comes back.