We're in Denial About the True Cost of a Twitter Implosion

[patphil]

5. I don't use Twitter, but I've read 10's of thousands of tweets.

It's evolved into something way beyond a social media platform.
It's more of an cultural experience that transcends boundaries in so many ways.
It became a virtual world for hundreds of millions of people, going way past entertainment...sort of a virtual global stream of consciousness.
Yeah, there's a lot of frivolous garbage in it; a lot of nastiness and hate, but that's to be expected when you have literally unlimited ability to read and comment on any topic, situation, or experience that anyone can post. Controls were necessary to maintain law and order in this otherwise lawless land. And they worked about as well as could be expected.

Still, it's got it's problems, and now it's got Musk; far and away the biggest problem Twitter ever had.
Musk doesn't want to run the company, he wants to rule it.
And therein lies the problem for this platform.
He's simple an irresponsible, ego driven man-boy, who sees Twitter as his toy to do with however he wishes.

It's like a 10 year old boy grabbing the keys to his dad's Dodge Hellcat and taking it out for a spin.
It's not going to end well.