by Chris Black
Elon Musk, in his efforts to pretzel Twitter into a profitable enterprise, is slowly alienating even some his ardent shills and defenders.
The things people like about this website are basically incompatible with the revenue model he envisions.
Ad monetization inevitably leads to controlled discourse. He will not be able to avoid this, and it will ruin the site the way it ruined sites like YouTube and Twitch.
Elon’s big goofy scheme to get rid of the block button is obviously just an attempt to increase and cross-pollinate engagement between different filter bubbles on the site.
It will backfire spectacularly, making the site unusable for many large accounts, and will ultimately produce the opposite effect.
If he would just keep adding good features to X Premium and avoiding anything that leads to restriction of speech, he would do fine.
Make the site a real competitor to YouTube, Substack, Twitch, etc by adding 1:1 functionality and avoiding the pitfalls of those platforms.
But Musk is too prideful.
Bizarre decision by Musk.
All this will do is allow the Left to have better ability to mass flag Twitter accounts while simultaneously allowing GOP aligned trolls and bots to flood your comments with childish personal attacks and cuckservative narratives.
Goodbye political discussion, not that there is much of it on twitter anymore.