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The Post-Twitter Promised Land

We all complain incessantly about the world’s most infamous microblogging platform—hate speech, divisiveness, stupidity, bots—so what’s the future of the digital town square, post-Elon rule?

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Twitter polling appears to be Musk’s new love language: a bow to his primal narcissism, the veil of populism, and an element of C.Y.A. executing on the fly. Photo: Michael Gonzalez/Getty Images
Baratunde Thurston
November 27, 2022

The richest man in the world has continued putting his fingerprints on Twitter by welcoming back previously barred users, revamping the predictably-failed verification subscription program, and vaguely hinting at a Twitter phone. Yes, like a physical smartphone. Right. Let’s start with the banned accounts.