Twitter’s dying may be overstated, however we nonetheless can’t unsee what we noticed in 2022.
The newly Elon Musk-owned social community may proceed zombie-shuffling for months or years for all we all know if Elon Musk can scrape in combination sufficient promoting earnings to pay the expenses — specifically, the large passion at the $13 billion in debt that he saddled the corporate with so as to purchase it. Twitter may additionally claim chapter and pass poof — an consequence that Musk himself has mentioned may be very a lot at the desk, and person who’s underlined via Twitter’s fresh refusal to pay for the whole lot from office rent to toilet paper.
Both approach, the chaos has painted an unsure long run for some of the global’s maximum outstanding and long-running social networks. It’s additionally introduced a chance to reevaluate how the social media panorama may transform in mild of Twitter’s very tumultuous 2022.
Taylor Hatmaker, Amanda Silberling and Haje Jan Kamps be offering up their very own concepts of what they’d like to look in a possible post-Twitter global:
Taylor Hatmaker: Not anything lasts eternally and that’s a just right factor
Amanda Silberling: It’s time to get bizarre
Haje Jan Kamps: Carry again the nice outdated days
Elon Musk’s disastrous Twitter takeover confirmed that it simply takes one particular person’s unhealthy concepts to destabilize a social community that everybody assumed was once a given.
