Let the good times and heads roll
The deal is done. Elon Musk is now Chief Twit at Twitter, and he's started by immediately axing the company's top executives, including the Chief Censorship Officer.
And yet nothing of value was lost. Tea?
What a fool fools himself over
Musk wants civilisation to have a common digital town square
, seemingly oblivious to the fact that most of civilisation doesn't engage with Twitter in the first place, and a significant proportion of that which does is anything but civilised. It's almost as if—while a small number of unruly citizens in the town square are spitting at those they accuse of wrongthink
, calling them poopyhead
, and trying to cast them out—the majority of the township is in bed; or watching TV; or at the game; or…
Perhaps it could be fixed. But would that make it any more relevant to civilisation in general?
Blogs like this, on the other hand, are the equivalent of grafitti on a sidestreet leading to the town square. Or, in this particular case, on a wall on the far side of town where no one goes; probably adjacent to the sewage treatment plant.
The Pew Research Center conducted a nationally representative survey of 1,502 U.S. adults
in early 2021, which showed that only 23% of them use Twitter. Another in-depth survey of [2,548] U.S. adults who use Twitter
showed that:
A minority of Twitter users produce a majority of tweets from U.S. adults, and the most active tweeters are less likely to view the tone or civility of discussions as a major problem on the site
Colleen McClain, Regina Widjaya, Gonzalo Rivero, Aaron Smith, The Behaviors and Attitudes of U.S. Adults on Twitter, Pew Research Center
That's about as relevant as you want it to be, I guess. (shrug)