And AI will only make it worse. I myself have begun retreating from online spaces I used to enjoy, including Twitter. Elon really kicked off a massive shift towards enshitification when he let bots run wild.
There are unsavoury things on Twitter, but the alternative is basically something like Instagram, Threads, or r/all, where people are basically being dosed with Soma every day.
At the moment it seems to filter for the extremes - the very smart, the very dumb, the very wise, the foolish.
I think there is real utility in that. Where else on the internet do you see bond traders chatting shit about each other just below people arguing if manchester is red or blue.
What does cultural aptitude even mean?
> he fundamentally understands the value of twitter
So what would having someone "he can listen to by his side" actually add?
I feel we are absolute fools for letting this happen, but it aligns with the interests of the late American Empire oligarchy, so what can do.
Elon bought the information space so he could trash it.
More importantly, it aligns with his Saudi investors, who see lighting a large pile of cash on fire as a reasonable cost to prevent an Arab Spring in their country.
How did "we" let it happen?
Was twitter doing that before he outright purchased it?
> I feel we are absolute fools for letting this happen
It's a site that gained popularity because celebrities used it to post marketing messages. You didn't "let" anything happen. This was inevitable.