Posts on the (potential) fall of Twitter: the question, says David Hopkins, "is whether Musk's purchase of Twitter (and subsequent actions; firing staff, ordering 24/7 working to implement a paid-for anti-verification system) is the wholesale death bell of social media?" If so, researchers are concerned about the loss of the historical record should Twitter go under. To this end, Tim Hutton has authored a Twitter archive parser. Also: what are the symptoms of Twitter poisoning? Twitter is suffering from Mad Bro Disease, says the Register. "Instead of being above it all, like traditional strongmen throughout history, the modern social media-poisoned alpha male whines and frets." More: "Twitter's demise is ActivityPub's future," writes Ariadne Conill. Mark Liberman summarizes Ben Tarnoff's NY Review of Books article In the Hothouse: "Mark Zuckerberg once called Twitter a clown car that fell into a gold mine. Now there is a new clown behind the wheel, and the gold's all gone." Jean-Louis Gassée writers about Elon Musk's irresponsible tweeting. Also: "The Age of Social Media Is Ending," writes Ian Bogost. "It never should have begun." And let's remember: "Elon Musk's Twitter takeover is a reminder that Slack is never private."
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