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I would really like to have you, but you've got to be relevant to the conversation.

And the conversation right now turns to the press score.

You know, increasingly on Twitter,

Elon Musk has actually done a pretty terrible job of Twitter.

The only people who like it are the people who like to fluff up Elon Musk,

the regular users of Twitter now.

There are way more bots. There is way more

misinformation circulating from nefarious groups. You know, he certainly has alienated a lot of

progressives, which people in the right have liked. But when you're got a bunch of anti-Semites,

neo-Nazis and

botic pro-Russia and pro-China bot accounts, the site is less and less useful.

The way you interact with people, it's your, it's harder and harder to interact with people who

are people you follow. He's just done a terrible job and he's proud of doing a terrible job, which makes it more annoying.

He's running the site into the ground.

He has some idea for the site that no one who uses the site likes.

I find myself increasingly moving to threads, which is the Facebook equivalent.

But I did see a story on Twitter yesterday and I didn't believe the story it's increasingly when you see something on Twitter

you should not believe the story unless it's verified by other sources

because of the level of misinformation willfully

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