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David RothschildFor a brief moment Twitter was a unique platform where thought leaders in politics, academia, journalism, business, came together to yell at each other, dialogue, and engage with voters, customers, anyone with an idea they wanted to share. It was not always civil, it was not always productive, but it gave people a voice, it inspired as much as it infuriated. I am so sorry that Elon Musk burned it down, but hopeful that new platforms will emerge that learn & grow from Twitter's ashes.
Bruce Mirken@DavMicRot Well said. Twitter was a mess, but a valuable one. Sad that the new owner has no glimmer of understanding.
Kansas Grant@DavMicRot In that vein, I plan to delete my @GrantDotDotDot account on Twitter tomorrow.
Irene Costa 🥁🌊🐦🌻@DavMicRot Same here David. I had joined Twitter for what I thought would be a very good platform for news, business, politics, etc. Sadly, that does not seem to be the case anymore.
Alice@DavMicRot This platform.
Its Not A Hoax 🤞
🇺🇦🇺🇦 Walter White 🇺🇸🇨🇦@DavMicRot I am hoping Mastodon has the staying power... I like the decentralized nature of it, and that there is no single ultra rich megalomaniac at the controls.
Helchose@DavMicRot Twitter expanded my mind immensely. I've learned so much from people there. We'll create a new space for that here, I'm certain of it.
Nancy M Ruff@DavMicRot It was more than thought leaders, though many if not most of them came to believe it was all about them.
Jacob Bogage@DavMicRot one of my best Twitter moments was when we got to know each other. You had some fair criticism of my work. I responded. We talked about it, even chatted on the phone. That was a good exchange. We also lived in a different world back then, something like 18 months ago.
Janis@DavMicRot yep. It’s definitely a tragic loss.
Brian Dear@DavMicRot The Twitter fiasco will not be forgotten. The internet will long remember the lesson here: don’t trust oligarchs owning social media platforms.
liorafale600@brianstorms @DavMicRot Long life to the free internet !
Fastus@brianstorms @DavMicRot ... except who BUT an oligarch can afford to buy a social media platform - or a TV station or a radio station or a newspaper? We live in a system that wildly favors the expression and influence of the rich.
Richard@DavMicRot So much of that was an illusion. Big shots paid staff to craft tweets for them and didn't really engage with the hoi polloi in any meaningful way. Too many people mistook the narrow slice of the general population there as widely representative. Many people took it way too seriously. Companies poured money into engagement there, and one slipup would cause days of PR nightmares. And it was always crawling with vicious racists and antisemites ready to pounce.
It was fun, though.
J. Nathan Matias 🦣
Atlantic Canuck 🇨🇦@DavMicRot This one is good.
@IllLetUKnow@DavMicRot from your keyboard to god’s screen.
Jessica Craven@DavMicRot today really does feel like an ending, doesn’t it?
@DavMicRot we came to Mastodon to AVOID talk about the bird app. Can we please drop@it and talk about other things?
xsk@DavMicRot at the same time they forgot to prioritise the yelling to their local government officials ;)
Dr Bruno aka Eden Grey@DavMicRot I was wondering how this happened, now he is posting weird memes of himself... like his opinion is more important than anyone's? I am so confused by this, it is one of the strangest, most unexpected occurrences, that one person would deliberately try to ruin it for everyone. But it's true that it had taken a major turn for the worse when the last sitting imbecile was president. I appreciate the original twitter team for taking away his privileges to run his mouth on there...
Robert M. Kelly@DavMicRot True. It seems that the problem with engagement is that it slows you down. Many of the thought leaders described here just could not handle it. They had to work on their brand.
@DavMicRot yeah, it went from 'engage' to 'enrage' - which is what you do if you don't have any valid ideas to discuss
@DavMicRot and some of us just listened in and learned a lot from smart people with different areas of expertise.
toxtethogrady@DavMicRot Right here, my man, right here...
Rabbi Jill Zimmerman@DavMicRot amen. I’m so with you. To me, it’s a tragedy that he came & made what felt like a creative interactive public square into a dumping ground trash heap.
Prokofy@DavMicRot I was an early adapter since 2007 and I wouldn't aggrandize it quite so much. Plus, you won't have a theory to account for why so many will end up staying if it at least functions, even amidst the horrid Orban ads and suggestions to follow Ben Shapiro and soul-killing pile-ons. Loren Feldman got it right years ago when he said not to get a personalized FB page. Don't let any platform define you. Hard to call any Internet page really your own at the end of the day.
David Fowler@DavMicRot i agree with the past tense, he has already “burned it all down”.
DeanObeidallah@DavMicRot reminds me of: Don't let it be forgot, that once there was a spot, for one brief shining moment, that was known as Camelot.
Christine Dantz@DavMicRot Rome wasn't built in a day ... but it burned in one.