Elon Musk makes $43 Billion offer for private buyout of Twitter
It is wild how much of my Threads feed is new people with a “first thread” designation saying they quit X. It was a lot a few days ago - this morning it’s like more than half of my feed. Some of that is the algorithm (I’m reading these posts so I get more of them) but many of the new members are blue checked. There’s definitely a high volume right now (though it’s impossible to know how meaningful it actually is).
In other news, this piece in Rolling Stone highlights how X has become a font of misinformation in an evolution that has been very clearly cultivated by Elon himself.
It is wild how much of my Threads feed is new people with a “first thread” designation saying they quit X. It was a lot a few days ago - this morning it’s like more than half of my feed. Some of that is the algorithm (I’m reading these posts so I get more of them) but many of the new members are blue checked. There’s definitely a high volume right now (though it’s impossible to know how meaningful it actually is).
In other news, this piece in Rolling Stone highlights how X has become a font of misinformation in an evolution that has been very clearly cultivated by Elon himself.