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what? how?
It was the single platform where scientists and the politically active could interact, safe from regressives via twitters moderation policy. Essentially, a place where verified experts could share opinions to a receptive audience.
By taking over, the verifiablitiy went, the voices of the uninformed were weighted the same as the informed, and whatever (mostly left-leaning) communities existed there became fragmented as the twitter experience went down as the UX became more hostile and ad-ridden.
The progressives are recovering, and finding their communities again, but mostly via bluesky/mastodon
you give him way too much credit. he's a fucking moron and he didn't even buy twitter on purpose. he thought could back out of it just like he backs out of everything he says but was forced to go through with one of the worst purchases in history.
also the rebranding is not to ruin twitter but to pivot to the everything app he's been trying to make for a long time. the name X is also something he always liked because he's a child. he tried to name PayPal X too, and also named one of his children X. none of what he does is 5d chess. he's just a loser idiot who has been failing up for too long.
I mean, the ends are the same whether he was an independent actor or a puppet. Now Saudi Arabian is the second-largest owner of Twitter and it is destroyed as the mechanism it once was for progressive protest against governments.