‘More tears and tantrums on Twitter are guaranteed’ – The Week UK

on Twitter tantrums

Twitter favours explosive over-reaction, which could be one reason for the deranged response to the announcement of Elon Musks takeover, says Madeline Grant in The Telegraph. Social media users responded as if this were digital armageddon, the end of the world as we know it. But there have been occasions when Twitter has stifled free speech in the past de-platforming Trump, yet allowing Taliban leaders to tweet, for example. And during the pandemic, we repeatedly saw social media moderators often using their powers to silence particular viewpoints, Grant writes. Shouldnt we welcome someone who wants to spend their own money unwinding these sorts of attitudes, assuming Twitter doesnt become toxic and unusable? Whatever the uncertainty is about Twitters future, it is scarcely enough to justify the hyperbole. What we can guarantee, though, is that whatever direction he takes the platform in, well see more tears and tantrums from its most prolific users.

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'More tears and tantrums on Twitter are guaranteed' - The Week UK