How Elon Musk Ruined Twitter
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The article discusses how Elon Musk's ownership of Twitter has led to its decline, echoing the concept of 'enshittification' coined by Doctorow, with comments reflecting on the broader implications for social media and online discourse.
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einsteinx2
2 months ago
1 replyHot take, but Twitter was terrible before and X is still terrible now. Kind of hard to ruin something that’s already awful.
JohnFen
2 months ago
You can always take something terrible and make it even worse.
falcor84
2 months ago
> This is an extract from Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What To Do About It by Cory Doctorow.
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