The platform was a news accelerator, a tool of mass harassment, and an infinite joke machine.
The year Twitter died: a special series from The Verge
https://www.theverge.com/c/23972308/twitter-x-death-tweets-history-elon-musk
https://www.theverge.com/c/23972308/twitter-x-death-tweets-history-elon-musk
The platform was a news accelerator, a tool of mass harassment, and an infinite joke machine.
4 Comments
sbv@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 2y
The project seems a little self indulgent: a bunch of terminally online columnists hyperbolizing at the importance and decline of Twitter.
But I did enjoy https://www.theverge.com/c/features/23997516/harassment-twitter-sarah-jeong-canceled-social-change
Warl0k3@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y
What in the good goddamn is that travesty of a website. Its like Web 1.0 written by doctor seuss. I kept expecting to scroll into an ad for Space Jam.
sbv@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 2y
The colours, fonts, and pull quotes are awful. But aside from the entire aesthetic, it's pretty cool to see what you can do with CSS these days.
HipPriest@kbin.social · 2 pts · 2y
Awful layout... Some interesting stuff when you can actually find the articles though