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Matthew's avatar

This is why it's hard to see the Twitter alternatives having any great success. They all seem to have partisanship baked into their design. Apart from anything else, this deprives us from rubbernecking at high profile figures making comments that seem beyond the pale compared to our own beliefs, or even better, sniping at one other in public.

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Emby's avatar

I have no particular opinion of Elon Musk, but the Twitter Drama coming from his tweets is now at a level where I no longer believe in it - it looks like theatre. Blue-check-gate was fun and all, but as a business decision it was so close to the ‘can’t run a lemonade stand’ level of functioning that I can’t actually believe he didn’t see the consequences. I think he’s giving us a show while he does whatever the hell it is he’s thinking of doing

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