The news recently came through that the Guardian was unhooking itself from the drip drip drip of the Twitterverse. It was coming for a long time, they said, a decision that “the benefits of being on X are now outweighed by the negatives.” It made headlines, unsurprisingly—and seems to be a vanguard in a fresh exodus away from Twitter after the dispiriting election results in early November. The news meant landed a little different for […]
Great series on Threads from a small publisher on the destruction of Twitter and what it means for them. To engage properly in these spaces, you need to enjoy being there. Engagement is tumbling (so perhaps fewer people are enjoying being there.) No other space has emerged as a replacement. There is an upside, and these spaces can be hugely valuable. I am not currently using Twitter or any diaspora service, although you may see […]
• Jonathan Katz has the best piece I’ve seen about the current attempts to rewrite the history of the New York Times op-ed controversy in 2020. (You remember, the one that engulfed the paper when it published Tom Cotton’s call for federal troops to end Black Lives Matter protests? The one currently undergoing a revisionist reconstruction project which is being laundered by Semafor as a way to get attention?) • Some people dredged up a […]
