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    Commentary: The midlife crises of Twitter and Elon Musk finally meet

    Twitter has gotten old, in most senses of that word, and even its new owner Elon Musk can’t invent a way to turn back the clock. Founder Jack Dorsey sent his first tweet — “just setting up my twttr” — in March 2006. Since then, the noisy, baffling, reviled, addictive, occasionally government-destabilizing social media service hasn’t really changed all that much. Type a (very) short thought and ...
    by Matt Pearce, Los Angeles Times Oct 28, 2022 4 minutes
    Jack Dorsey creator, co-founder, and Chairman of Twitter at the Mana Convention Center in Miami on June 4, 2021.

    Twitter has gotten old, in most senses of that word, and even its new owner Elon Musk can’t invent a way to turn back the clock.

    Founder Jack Dorsey sent his first tweet — “just setting up my twttr” — in March 2006. Since then, the noisy, baffling, reviled, addictive, occasionally government-destabilizing social media service hasn’t really changed all that much. Type a (very) short thought and send it to the world, and people will talk back. A revolutionary concept at the time.

    Sixteen years into the experiment, Twitter is a graybeard by internet years and by corporate standards. TikTok

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