It was a win for the technology mogul when his quest to buy the micro-blogging site came to a close today. We are here regardless of what we might have thought when we heard about the poison pill defense against the takeover.
After more than a decade on the social networking site, I am ready for another purge, since I have grown up on it. That makes the posting platform much more than a public social media company to me.
My home is on the social networking site. It is the first thing I check in the morning, and the last thing I look at before falling asleep. I have had to remove my phone from my bedroom at times to avoid using it more. I love it and live it. I've gotten jobs on the service, made friends on it, and met a lot of people. It's my living room.
Don't fuck it up.
It has never been perfect. I haven't always agreed with the company's decisions. Keeping its time-series feed accessible while working to conserve as much room for speech as possible is one of the things that has mostly been done by the company. It worked.
The platform will be even more attractive to more people if the path forward is somehow carved. The new owner of the company said in his announcement that he wanted to make the product open source to increase trust and defeat the bots. Affirming all humans will cause an uproar in the space, where anonymity and pseudo-anonymity are considered bedrock community values. Fleets was bad, but Spaces are good.
You can make it better by throwing new shit at it. If you do that, you'll get a monster like Facebook and a new type of social network. It did one small thing very well and stuck to it. More may not be better.
godspeed, on the front of the internet. Whenever I mention the company, I would like to get fewer support posts. My beefs with the social networking site are not endless. Let's hope that he has a few very strong ideas, and that they are different from what he has already described. If not, he's going to upset some of his core fans who still believe in him.
It is easy to sit here and ask questions. How will Musk balance his time? When the takeover is completed and settled, who will run the day-to-day operations? With my journalist hat off and my user hat on, I hope that he doesn't fuck up the social networking site. It is where I call home.
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