Hi, my name is Michelle. I live in Denver, Colorado and I love Twitter.

Good afternoon. My name is Neil Shader. I guess since we're talking about Twitter, I should

leave my handle, which is the very creative at Neil Shader. All one word.

My name is Ed Zitron. I love Twitter. I use it all the time. It's a great way to say a bunch of things

that, if you set them out loud, they would call the doctor, but that's funny on Twitter.

And it's also a place I've met several of my closest friends.

Hi, my name is Renee Deckert and I live in a tiny rural Wyoming town and I adore Twitter.

Last week, as the deal between Elon Musk and Twitter inch toward the finish line, really,

we asked people to call in and tell us what Twitter means to them.

Renee, who lives in Wyoming, live tweets baseball games for an espionation microsite.

And one of the things that I have learned through doing that is that Twitter is the best sports bar in the world

because it brings together people from all over the world in an event to share information and to become friends

and to talk to each other and you have experts who are there and lay people who are there.

And it's really a pretty terrific environment for that kind of thing.

And you never have to leave your house and I think that's amazing.

Hey, this is Alex Fitzpatrick at X-EOS.

Like many journalists, Alex spends a lot of his time. He would say too much on Twitter.

But lately, that's become less and less appealing.

And that's mostly just because it's become a place where teams can get brief looking for a fight and an argument

and it's just, you know, why bother being in a place like that.

Elon Musk's takeover might be the thing that seals it for him.

Musk says he doesn't want Twitter to be a cesspool, but other than that, has shown little appetite for or interest in moderating content.

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