> I guess it is strange for it to happen to a company of Twitter's size, but I think the big-news aspect of it has more to do with how much journalists use Twitter.
I think you hit on the the main point: the reason this is constantly in the mainstream media is because the mainstream media so heavily relied on/still relies on twitter[1].
If this were any other large company imploding in a Musk acquisition we'd see fewer stories about it because it affects journalists less.
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[1] It's going to be especially funny if journalists complain that "#LearnToCode" type of tweeters aren't getting banned, and get told in response to go off and create their own twitter.
No matter where in the political spectrum one may lie, it's always satisfying to see a group being fed their own lines back.
I think you hit on the the main point: the reason this is constantly in the mainstream media is because the mainstream media so heavily relied on/still relies on twitter[1].
If this were any other large company imploding in a Musk acquisition we'd see fewer stories about it because it affects journalists less.
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[1] It's going to be especially funny if journalists complain that "#LearnToCode" type of tweeters aren't getting banned, and get told in response to go off and create their own twitter.
No matter where in the political spectrum one may lie, it's always satisfying to see a group being fed their own lines back.