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as spurred on by the ceo of posting, let's ask a pretty obvious question in twitter's extended wake

do we fix it?

set aside finding another platform for a second- as only time will tell their staying power, remember hive?

is twitter, as it is now, worth fixing anymore?

so, in case you didn't hear, uh. elon musk bought twitter late last year despite clearly realizing before the sale was finalized it'd be a bad idea. since then it's gotten much worse, but this isn't a post about the specifics, just broad strokes here

let's say a third party intervened and like, confiscated twitter? for the public good or something? who knows, point being: let's say twitter was suddenly under new management that at least has a passing understanding of how to run a social media platform...

Elon musk tweeting a short video of him carrying a sink into his new 'job', with the caption: "Entering Twitter HQ, let that sink in!"

...let alone an account.

here's the thing- a lot of the damage is honestly already done. twitter's staff has been carved out, and many understandably have no interest in returning- i doubt new leadership would sway all of them

but losing 80% of your workforce and millions more dollars in the process is just a couple workers' rights violations off of potentially committing an actual crime

this is still a developing story and i'm no legal expert, however

that paid twitter blue checkmark on celebs' pages, claiming to be via their subscription to the service, despite those celebrities actively not wanting the checkmark, or being deceased?

Anthony Bourdain's Twitter page as of April 22nd, 2023. A blue checkmark is next to his name. Hovering over it reads: "Verified account. This account is verified because they are subscribed to Twitter Blue and verified their phone number."

i mean. this is a crime, no? someone who knows 'bout laws and ISN'T a cop please weigh in

all of this is to say, the platform itself, the website? the company that is Twitter? that cannot be completely fixed, and even if it could, it would still suffer aftershocks of elon's brute force bullshit via unpaid debts, lost staff, and destroyed infrastructure

no. even if we could fix twitter, it's too late.

you don't need me to sit here and tell you why, despite twitter being a cesspool, i would have preferred elon not do this to it. many artists, creators, and friends of mine rely on it for outreach, myself included, and when DMs aren't down and notifications are working i'm still pretty active there. for now.

it's many people's livelihood. and not unlike twitter's employees, elon has ruined it for us, too.

if nothing else, i like co-host, not just tolerate it like so many other proposed alternatives. so once twitter fully gives way or becomes too choked by techbros to be livable, i'll be putting my weight here, far as i can see.


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If Twitter got bought by someone who rolled back all the transphobic bullshit and banned all the Nazis like even previous ownership was unwilling to do, and made Twitter Blue about features rather than being first class citizens in what’s supposedly a public square, and finally reopened the API and treated it as an equally valid way to use Twitter with long term guarantees of stability, even if it was lightly taxed to make up missed ad revenue, or had a revshare agreement with third party devs on the ads… I’d come back and do whatever I could to help rebuild. I like Twitter as a concept. It doesn’t have to be over yet.

The odds of this happening are basically zero. Twitter is over.