It's Time to Divest from Twitter
marcorogers.com/blog/its-time-…

If the vast majority of your users are doing it wrong, that's the sign of a bad product actually.

I truly don't understand why these two losers are literally the best they have. That's wild to me.

Wow. This thread gets pretty wild.

Life comes at you fast.

“There were Black people here and - “

“How DARE these WOKISTS try to FORCE our children to learn that ALL OF BRITON used to be BLACK!!!! Something something white genocide something something reverse racism.”

mentioning the existence of Black people triggers meltdowns.

Correct. And also, they make more money from the ad-supported tiers.

Let me say that again. The ad-based tiers are cheaper, but when they add in the advertiser revenue, the ad-based tiers are *more profitable* per customer.

We literally can't have nice things.

How the fuck was everyone somehow convinced that the collective trauma experienced over the past 3+ years was due to remote work and masking and not, y'know, being abandoned to mass death and disablement in the name of unprecedented capital accumulation by the ultrawealthy?

'Twitter never has and never will be a vehicle for democratic expression. It is a privately held corporation that monetizes human expression, and what turns out to be most profitable is sowing social, cultural, and political division' newyorker.com/magazine/2023/…