I actually wrote the below a couple weeks ago and never got around to sending it out because by the time I went to hit send, ten new crazy things happened within the TwitterElonGate realm. And now at least
a hundred other things have happened. Honestly, it’s exhausting. I want to care because I want Twitter to survive. But I find myself increasingly tuning it all out. It seems pretty clear that both sides should probably walk away, but cannot. It would be just such a fitting way for Twitter to end, sadly. I really hope it won’t, but my god, what a shitshow.
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I suspect like many people these days, I’m fairly worried about the future of Twitter. Regardless of what you think about
Elon Musk’s takeover bid, it’s clearly chaotic and creating a new level of chaos in a company which has always been chaotic.
More chaos today,
of course.
I love Twitter. I know it’s not in favor to say it these days, but I really think it’s my favorite service on the internet, even now, some 15 years after I started using it. It’s just so great for so many things. Yes, some bad. But plenty good. Many useful.
I also, quite frankly, worry about the service on which I’m writing this newsletter (
Revue), because it’s now owned by Twitter. Does it survive? I’m not sure anyone actually knows right now. I’ve moved this newsletter back and forth between services enough, that it’s not a huge deal. But it is yet another thing to think about and deal with. Should I stay or should I go?
Anyway, here for now.
Aside: since we may be very well back to the experimental stage, I figured I’d try something a little different this dispatch. No excerpts, just quick blurbs in an attempt to make it more parseable. Feel free to click on some things, skip others, etc.