Musk could kill Twitter. Was it doomed already?

The Bunker – News without the nonsense

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News, Government, Politics, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 23 November 2022

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Musk’s Twitter takeover is leading to a mass exodus from the site. But is this just the Elon effect, or was that bound to happen anyway? Jacob Jarvis is joined by Marcus Gilroy-Ware, Lecturer in Creative Digital Media at SOAS and author of Filling the Void: Emotion, Capitalism and Social Media, about what the decline of the Twittersphere means for how we participate in politics – and to discuss whether this was an inevitability, regardless of who ran the platform. “Musk is known for entrepreneurial pseudo-logic.” “Musk represents the death of the political.” “We all skip ads, so it’s not a viable way to fund social media.” Support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/bunkercast Written and presented by Jacob Jarvis. Producers: Alex Rees, Jet Gerbertson. Assistant producer: Kasia Tomasiewicz. Audio production by Jade Bailey. Group editor: Andrew Harrison. Music: Kenny Dickinson. THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:26.0	He clearly had lofty ambitions for the site, but it's fair to say things aren't seeming to go to plan.
1:31.3	The use of racial slurs on the platform has soared of late, according to the
1:34.4	Center for Countering Digital Hate, making verification a paid for bolt-on has seen
1:38.8	companies and celebrities impersonated with real life consequences such as plummeting stock prices for businesses.
1:44.9	Staff have been fired acrimoniously and en masse, whilst those remaining have been told to commit
1:49.5	to going extremely hardcore, whatever that might mean.
1:53.0	Then Musk himself has even suggested that Twitter could go bankrupt.
1:57.0	Is there any turning this thing around, and was Twitter ever truly built to last?
2:02.0	Here to discuss this with me is Marcus Gilroy Ware,
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