Took over Twitter. Ruined it. Then : “The sad truth is that there are no great ‘social networks’ right now,”.

How did he ruin it though? I hear that all the time but I myself haven’t noticed any changes. Well, except for a logo but that’s very minor

For a product the logo and brand recognition are not minor. Twitter was so well known and ubiquitous that the world “tweet” was included in dictonaries around the world. He threw that away and replaced it with a generic X, where no one can figure out how to call posts on that platform now.

But other than that, he has a very particular stance on moderation and free speech. He thinks hateful comments are just fine, as long as they aren’t strictly against the law. But he also doesn’t apply the same standards to himself, removing stuff he doesn’t like even though it would be ok according to his own rules. He also gutted the Twitter/X staff, particularly the tech departements, leading to numerous outages and technical problems. All this has made it an even worse platform for civil public discourse, and it wasn’t all that great before he took over imo.

and no one can figure out how to call posts on that platform now.

I will continue to call them twats