The Day Twitter Died
We’ll be singing, “Bye-bye, Miss American Pie. Drove my Tesla to the office, but there was just one guy.”
Twitter died last Thursday night.
Ok. It didn’t completely die, but by all accounts, Thursday night was a big turning point for the platform. Many of the few remaining employees were laid off, Elon Musk temporarily closed the offices, and the timeline was awash with eulogies for the platform.
While much of the “sky is falling” rhetoric was unproven, Ryan Broderick said it best in his recap of the evening:
Even if Twitter hobbles along like this for weeks or months, it’s safe to say that it’s not coming back the same, even if Musk miraculously stirs the ship back on course. This era of Twitter is over and it’s ok to be sad about that, but it’s also ok to feel silly that you feel sad about that.
The Twitter that exists today may not be the same Twitter that exists in three months, but it is definitely not the same Twitter that existed three weeks ago.
As people lamented and eulogized the Twitter that was, I noticed a pattern emerge on my timeline. The reaction to Thursday’s death spiral broke into two camps:
- Those who lamented and wondered where they would find a similar community…
