It will all end in flames
Nate Silver, back in April, under the headline “Social Media Is Turning Into a Freak Show”, where by “social media” he mostly discusses Twitter/X: But what does that remaining traffic consist of? I recently came across a bubble chart depicting the Twitter accounts that had received the most “engagement” in February 2026. It was depressing: most of the top accounts were extremely low-quality...
Continue Reading on https://daringfireball.net/X used to be called Twitter, but soon it will become “the Everything App,” and that day is “closer than everyone thinks,” X CEO Linda Yaccarino promised in one of her first X posts of 2024. “Nothing can slow us down,” Yaccarino said. Turning Twitter into an everything app is arguably the reason that Elon Musk purchased Twitter. He openly craved the success of the Chinese everything app...
Continue Reading on https://daringfireball.net/“Buying Twitter is an accelerant to creating X, the everything app,” Twitter CEO Elon Musk said last October, just weeks before assuming control of the platform. In tweets, Musk mused that he “could be wrong,” but he expected that his purchase of Twitter would provide the infrastructure to launch his own super app within the next three to five years. Whether Twitter would become an arm of X...
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