One of the prevailing narratives to surface from the news of Elon Musk buying TwitterтАФin a culture-shaking deal worth $44 billionтАФwas that the end, in some form, had arrived for the pioneering social media site.
April 16, 1:20 AM
One of the prevailing narratives to surface from the news of Elon Musk buying TwitterтАФin a culture-shaking deal worth $44 billionтАФwas that the end, in some form, had arrived for the pioneering social media site.
Elon Musk wrote that his goal is to help Twitter fulfill its “potential to become a platform for free speech around the world.”
What Twitter is today is not necessarily the best or most useful version of what is possible for users moving forward. The more fascinating outcome of MuskтАЩs acquisition, and a potential exodus of users, is how it might give rise to the next iteration of the social internet somewhere else.
The inevitably of TwitterтАЩs end should not be cause for despairтАФthere is excitement in what awaits us on the other side, in what comes next. That, for me, has always been the addictive charm of the social internet: that we continually find new ways to interact, create, be. That no matter what, we never stagnate.
One of the many things inherent in the digital ageтАФand especially on social media, where the tinkering and retooling of relationships is a constantтАФis the certainty of impermanence, the assurance of the ephemeral. Things are here and then, in a spectacular flash, they are not.
Things are here and then, in a spectacular flash, they are not. One of the many things inherent in the digital ageтАФand especially on social media, where the tinkering and retooling of relationships is a constantтАФis the certainty of impermanence, the assurance of the ephemeral.┬а
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