Dan GillmorMay 3, 2023

NPR is the only major journalism org to have shown a spine in dealing with Musk. So he's threatened to give the NPR username to someone else.

Yet even now -- despite Musk's growing contempt for and acts against journalism -- most media organizations and their employees STILL pour their work and some of their advertising money in to his rancid site.

What will it take for journalists to wake the hell up?

https://www.npr.org/2023/05/02/1173422311/elon-musk-npr-twitter-reassign

Show threadJoe 📷 🖖🤨
@dangillmor What makes this all even more bizarre is that even in the best of times, Twitter was never a good driver of traffic. Imagine convincing celebrities and organizations followed by millions to post to your network for free and then antagonizing them to the point where they want to leave.
May 3, 2023 at 1:46amWeb
Show threadMichael RothMay 3, 2023

@Joe @dangillmor

Twitter unfortunately might get pretty big now

We need an alternative to Twitter, that's important. Unfortunately Mastodon is pretty small

Show threadLZVolkMay 3, 2023
@MichaelRoth @Joe @dangillmor Then the “best” of Twitter (scientists, reputable journalists, etc) should be encouraged more to migrate here.
Show threadMichael RothMay 4, 2023

@lzvolk @Joe @dangillmor

Yes I totally support that

But I think the problem is, that they will miss Twitter's relative simplicity

Mastodon is not streamlined enough