What Next TBD: Twitter Is Dead; Long Live Twitter

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Society & Culture, Technology, History

4.6 • 636 Ratings

🗓️ 28 October 2022

⏱️ 40 minutes

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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 If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get benefits like zero ads on any Slate podcast, bonus episodes of shows like Slow Burn and Dear Prudence—and you’ll be supporting the work we do here on What Next TBD. Sign up now at slate.com/whatnextplus to help support our work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I made you think you was real.
0:02.0	My name is Caden Sinclair.
0:04.0	Some people call us American royalty.
0:06.0	We were Liars.
0:08.0	A new series on Prime Video.
0:10.0	We were happy. We wanted for nothing.
0:12.0	Based on the best-selling novel.
0:15.0	Something terrible happened last summer,
0:17.0	and I have no memory of what or who hurt me.
0:20.0	No one in my family will tell me.
0:22.7	When you're left for dead, you want answers. We Will Liars. New series, watch now, only on Prime Video.
0:35.4	Hi, my name is Michelle.
0:43.3	I live in Denver, Colorado, and I love Twitter. Good afternoon.
0:44.3	My name is Neil Schader.
0:46.3	And I guess since we're talking about Twitter, I should leave my handle, which is a very creative at Neil Shader.
0:52.3	All one word.
0:55.8	My name is Ed Zittron.
0:57.3	I love Twitter.
0:58.6	I use it all the time.
1:07.7	It's a great way to say a bunch of things that if you set them out loud, they would call the doctor, but they're funny on Twitter.
1:11.3	And it's also a place I've met several of my closest friends.
1:18.6	Hi, my name is Renee Decker, and I live in a tiny rural Wyoming town, and I adore Twitter.
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