How Twitter lost its place as the global town square. A series of disastrous missteps over the past year has robbed Twitter of its relevance, while TikTok has begun fulfilling Twitter’s core functions
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/07/07/twitter-dead-musk-tiktok-public-square/
How Twitter lost its place as the global town square

Twitter is hemorrhaging relevance, and Meta's Threads made an impressive debut, but TikTok is the social media app to beat.

The Washington Post
@taylorlorenz Ok but some of us are ugly, unphotogenic, and do not wish to be perceived. I just want a text based news aggregating social media where we talk about politics all the time! 😭