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For a social media platform that is supposedly dead or dying, Twitter is doing RIP just fine.
CEO Elon Musk might be the busiest part of it. Owning Twitter has done nothing to destroy his online personality. He is on weekends criticizes the New York Times as in “basically just bored by far left brainwashing at the moment.” (“AF” is short for f— on the Internet.) Musk also used a giggling emoji to poke fun at CBS for taking a brief Twitter hiatus over the so-called “security issues”.
And he spoke again with New York Democrat and Squad member Rep. Alexandria Acasio-Cortez. The AOC tweeted: “Shout out to all the Twitter workers” for building, “an important place to connect.”
Musk sarcastically replied, “Nothing.”
This was just the beginning. He also helped several famous banned accounts to play Lazarus. Notable accounts that have come back from the dead include Canadian academic Jordan Peterson, Christian satire site The Babylon Bee and the last member of the ex-presidents, Donald Trump.
Here are three crazy or funny reactions to what’s happening on Twitter:
1. Killer bee
Musk, who saved Twitter from the censors, has nothing to do with Trump, but everything to do with the Babel Bee. The Bee, one of the funniest sites on the Internet, was shut down by the old guard at Twitter for giving Biden’s assistant health secretary, Rachel Levin, its Person of the Year award. This comes after USA Today unironically named Levine one of its “Women of the Year.”
Twitter has suspended Bee. Westworld actress Tallulah Riley, Musk’s ex-wife twice (yes, twice.) messaged him to inform him of the “rejection,” noting, “Why has everyone become such a puritan?” She asked if he would like to “buy Twitter and make it radically free speech.”
I doubt most people send Christmas cards to their ex-wives. And even more so to buy a company worth 44 billion dollars according to their proposal. But Musk did just that.
Wall Street Journal film critic Kyle Smith tweeted that (spoiler alert!) “Banning the Bee of Babylon turned out to be as wise as killing John Wick’s dog.” If you haven’t seen the Keanu Reeves-starring action/thriller John Wick or its soon-to-be-released three sequels, just imagine PETA with Liam Neeson’s “very specific skill set” and you’re on the right track.
2. Not dead yet
We’ve all heard the Mark Twain quote, “The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.” While the comment itself is a misquote, it is accurate for Twitter. Prominent journalists and news outlets are declaring the death of Twitter because their friends who worked there have either bought out or been fired.
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It’s not exactly analysis, it’s the closest thing on the left to prayer. They hope that some divine presence, perhaps Gaia, will intervene and force Twitter to shut down. And the more they talk about it, the more they hope to drive away advertisers and turn Musk into a billionaire whale.
Here are some current headlines from the media:
*Washington Post: “Musk summons engineers to Twitter headquarters as millions await platform collapse”;
*Vanity Fair: “Twitter is dying and I don’t feel so good”;
*The Atlantic: “How Elon Musk Could Kill Twitter”;
*Guardian UK “Twitter has ‘50% chance’ of major outage during World Cup, insider says”;
*New York Times: “How to prepare for life after Twitter.”
And this is a CNN tweet that reads the same way: “Death is in the air on Twitter.”
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It was the same on MSNBC. Yasmin Vosuyan spent November 19, and Musk was one of her targets. She explained: “I can’t help but think that this is really the beginning of the end of Twitter.”
This is not news. It’s wishful thinking.
3. The Monty Python solution
Comedy fans will recognize one of the great moments from “Monty Python and the Holy Grail’“, which became part of the Internet culture – “Escape!” This is now the official strategy for the angry left. They like the idea that Twitter is a platform to organize their opinions. But they can’t stand the idea that this is an organizing platform for other opinions.
They run to new areas. The the most popular choice is called Mastodon. It was named after a herd mammal that went extinct 10,000-11,000 years ago. How appropriate for the left.
Axios reports that the site’s user base has tripled to nearly 2 million users. But many do so simply to avoid social shame for not doing so. Washington Post columnist and associate editorial page editor Karen Tumulty summed it up well when she tweeted: “Ok. I have a Mastodon pen, but I don’t know what to do with it.’
NBC News’ dystopia reporter Ben Collins was clearly conflicted. On one hand, he tweeted about Twitter: “It’s a good website, I’ve met a lot of good friends here, and if it dies, it’s because of one man’s ego.”
On the second he wrote: “I told you so! Goodbye everyone!”
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Collins is still there.
Musk had the best answer to all of this: “The best people stay, so I’m not too worried.”
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