Probably none of us who spent a lot of time there like to admit it, but Twitter was in many ways massively multi-player online game for news/policy people.
And by introducing what were essentially for-fee cheat codes, Elon broke the game.
I don't see a lot of tech reporting reflecting this reality, and that's unfortunate.
Unfortunate because we need good post-mortems, and unfortunate because we're overdue for a conversation about the ways that Twitter managed to gamify some of the most serious and consequential discourse of our time.
Like it or not, it was real and so was the impact.
@gwensnyder At the very least, we didn’t have a fascist dictator wielding his dick around like the Lord of the Manor making last minute pronouncements whenever a thought floated by that caught his attention like that of a flea on a sugar high.
The Twitter Board were faceless & unknown mainly policing us for bad behavior. They didn’t dictate spur of the moment policies or pander to far right lunatics.
Twitter wasn’t perfect but we weren’t left at the whims of a billionaire man-child, either.
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