Twitter was so many things.
Elon Musk killed Twitter. First, he did it figuratively: firing most employees, destabilizing it as a technology and a business, leaving the platform virtually unusable for those who remained. Then, he killed it literally: renaming it X, giving Twitter a final ending after 15 years of chaotic existence.
But in death, there is understanding — now that it’s over, we can reckon with what Twitter really was: a news cycle accelerator, a tool of mass harassment, an idealistic money-losing workplace, and an infinite joke machine.
2023 will go down as…
THE YEAR TWITTER DIED
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- Haunted moon
- Blue check
- Jack Dorsey with Death and Bitcoin
- Unicorn
- Macaulay Culkin
- Really big beet
- Karen
- They’re good dogs Brent
- Dril
- Goblin, ghoul or zombie with no conscience
- SpaghettiOs commemorating national tragedy
- Can of beans, uneaten
- Tim Robinson in hot dog costume
- Not a pipe
- Traffic light sign
- Goblin, ghoul or zombie
- Roald Dahl’s Charlie Bucket, dead
- Teach a kid to podcast
- A beer
- X
- September 21
- Cat exercising
- Aerobics instructor in Myanmar dancing through the coup
- Elon Musk being hosed
- The Worst Guy You Know
- UFO
- Bot
- Llama
- NPC
- These are my only moods
- Horse, front view
- A cat holding a sign
- Naomi Wolf’s nemesis, a vaccinated teddy bear
- Joyce Carol Oates
- Woman prison guard
