I can't imagine Musk can make Twitter any worse than it is. As much as I would have liked it to be a medium that elevated humanity, with some exceptions, it's served to be quite the opposite. I'd be pleased if Twitter disappeared from existence, but maybe Musk either improves it or leads to demolish it, and by no means would I suggest standing in the way.
You see, I think Twitter is different things to different people. I use it quite a lot - for putting out news about my local swimming club, the school’s parent teacher association and at work communicating with customers. I find it great, and don’t have to deal with toxicity because I don’t go out looking for it.
Unfortunately, you don’t have to go out and look for it though. Twitter was not supposed to be a worse RSS-feed, so if that’s your use case, nice, but that scope is ignorant to the reality of its market-fit.
That's true, and is the case with Facebook as well. I'm mostly commenting on the overall effect Twitter has had on civilization, and not so much that on the individual level. If Twitter has enriched society, I've yet to have noticed. In contrast, at least Tesla makes electric cars, expensive they may be, and even Facebook Marketplace is an improvement over Craigslist.
Oh yeah, Facebook. I think my grandpa used that once.
Don't get me wrong, Facebook can be bad, but I think Facebook was primarily bad at the personal level. It performed adverse psychological experiments on its users and it leaked data. Twitter is I think bad at a large scale because it's created a global shouting match while implementing ridiculous and often unspoken rules for the sake of protecting the establishment.
At least you can sign off of Facebook and never use it again. Twitter, on the other hand, is given such undue power over the flow of information and intercultural sentiment, and news from both the mainstream and the digital outskirts reference it all the time. Whether I have a Twitter account or not, I can't avoid it, because mere tweets make the news constantly. I'd say that Twitter is far more influential than Facebook at this point.
