Twitter Is Dead; Long Live Twitter
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🗓️ 28 October 2022
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Twitter has been a lot of things—where you posted your lunch, where you met your people, where you were subjected to a harassment campaign. Now, as Elon Musk prepares to take the reins, where is it headed?
Guest: Will Oremus, technology reporter for the Washington Post.
Host: Lizzie O’Leary
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| 1:09.7 | Hi, my name is Michelle. I live in Denver, Colorado and I love Twitter. Good afternoon. My name is |
| 1:19.6 | Neil Shader. And I guess since we're talking about Twitter, I should leave my handle, which is the |
| 1:23.9 | very creative at Neil Shader. All one word. My name is Ed Zitron. I love Twitter. I use it all |
| 1:32.0 | the time. It's a great way to say a bunch of things that if you set them out loud, they would call |
| 1:39.5 | the doctor, but they're funny on Twitter. And it's also a place I've met several of my closest |
| 1:44.8 | friends. Hi, my name is Renee Deckert and I live in a tiny rural Wyoming town and I adore Twitter. |
| 1:52.6 | Last week, as the deal between Elon Musk and Twitter inch toward the finish line, really, we ask |
| 1:59.7 | people to call in and tell us what Twitter means to them. Renee, who lives in Wyoming, |
| 2:04.9 | live tweets baseball games for an espionation microsite. And one of the things that I have learned |
| 2:10.3 | through doing that is that Twitter is the best sports bar in the world because it brings together |
| 2:15.5 | people from all over the world in an event to share information and to become friends and to |
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