Twitter isnt in such great shape at the moment. In fact, rumors of bankruptcy loom over the company as financial woes continue to mount, and solutions seem few and far between. Dave Karpf is a professor of internet politics at George Washington University and wrote an article describing Twitters current predicament. He writes,
A few weeks ago, Elon Musk said thatad revenues had fallen 50%. The site has experiencedmajor outagesat ahigher ratethan usual. During one such outage, Elon was laser-focused on the important stuff:reply-guying Jordan Peterson. The Twitter Blue rollout was such a disaster that hefired almost the entire team. Yesterday, he appeared tobacktrack on his big planto revoke legacy checkmarks. Twitterhasnt been paying rentonits office space. It recently tried to create a new income stream byselling office plants to employees.
Apart from that, accounts are still being suspended for violating Twitters policies. One reason Musk endeavored to buy Twitter was to remedy its flagrant complicity in censorship and shadow banning, particularly for accounts of conservative persuasions. Now, its clear that he has failed to sufficiently deal with the issue. Sean Davis is CEO and co-founder of the conservative outlet The Federalist and explained how his account was disabled after he tweeted about the tragic shooting last week at a small Christian elementary school in Nashville, TN. He writes,
Twitter is toast, and the sad truth of the matter is that Musk either cant, or wont, fix it. Musk may never get his $44 billion back, but until Twitter repents and stops producing rotten fruit, conservatives should keep their $8 in their pockets. At some point, instead of hoping the poison vine will produce fine wine, you just have to acknowledge reality and let it die.
Americans all along the political spectrum now have their qualms with the big blue bird, and its future appears shaky at best.
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Is This the End of Twitter? - Walter Bradley Center for Natural and Artificial Intelligence