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Twitter is kind of disintegrating, though. They've hit a growth plateau, the users are really fractious, management doesn't understand what they want out of it, and it's the venue for social strife.
I have never seen a for-profit social networking site that is immune to this on a long enough timeline. They all degrade eventually. By following what the money wants from users , not what the users want.
> "The junk merchant doesn't sell his product to the consumer, he sells the consumer to his product. He does not improve and simplify his merchandise. He degrades and simplifies the client."
- William S. Burroughs
I wonder what would happen if Twitter said "OK, we are going to charge $5 dollars a year" to use it.
Maybe it would not only be an improvement, but also viable from a business perspective.
The Twitter "firehose" (all public tweets, delivered in real-time) is likely very valuable for news, research, and marketing interests; charging for access to the firehose is possibly a workable business model, and by limiting it to public tweets, side-steps many of the issues around privacy and user tracking (since the people writing the tweets are doing so with informed consent, even if individual tweets may be sent in error).
The poster you replied to may have been thinking of US court decisions related to the legality of politicians blocking members of the public, when those politicians are speaking in their official capacity [1][2]. That doesn't quite seem to be the same thing as "the public has a right to access official government communications on social media".
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knight_First_Amendment_Institu...
[2] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/02/can-government-officia...
Something about _very important people_ sharing their thoughts in 140/280 characters really is the addictive nicotine of the human attention span.
All using each other as a "source" to create a false picture of reality
AFAIK, they still announce the monkey JPEGs somebody overpaid for on their behalf on Twitter.
Or better reply
And twitter in the present just seems outright toxic, I can't imagine being a new user on today's twitter.