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Twitter meltdown Part 1: The concerns of writers and creatives

Losing communities, getting ghostbanned and exploring Twitter alternatives

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Nov 12, 2022
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Twitter is dead. Long live Twitter! AI art generated by Nightcafe.

At the start of this week, I firmly believed that Twitter was too big to fail. Elon Musk will take over Twitter, mess it up, get bored, and hand it over to a CEO to repair and manage.

By the end of the week, I began to entertain the dismal thought that Twitter can literally die.

Why? Because Elon eliminated most of the people who kept the wheels turning and scared advertisers away with his bluster about unmoderated "free speech".

So, let’s get this right:

  1. Twitter may stop working because the elves behind the curtain are gone

  1. The ad money that kept Twitter barely afloat is disappearing

It’s going to be tough to come back from that.

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