Meldingstjenesten brukes til krise-kommunikasjon og har fått mange andre roller enn de vi vanligvis forbinder med meldingstjenesten. Hva skjer med Twitter og hva forteller det oss om utviklingen av Internett og Tech Gigantene? Litt bakgrunn her:
The point isn’t that Musk may not be as terrible as you think. He is definitely terrible. Just as Trump was unequivocally unfit to be president, Musk is unequivocally cruel, vindictive, a heartless manager, and a troll who amplifies extremists. (Over the weekend he sicced his followers on to Yoel Roth, Twitter’s former head of trust and safety, who fled his home with his family after getting threats.) He is also a chaotic leader who, far from having a plan, is—in the words of Chris Sacca, a venture capitalist and self-confessed admirer of Musk—“winging this.” It’s entirely possible that he will either destroy Twitter outright or turn it into what right-wing platforms like Gab and Parler only dreamed of becoming.
https://www.wired.com/story/donald-trump-elon-musk-media/
I samme utgave av Wired skriver magasinet at de tror Twitter er fordømt til å bli nok et hjørne på Internett dedikert til pornogfrafi.
Information may or may not want to be free, but it often wants to be porn. What Musk has considered doing, according to various reports, is introduce paywalled video that would allow performers to get paid while Twitter takes a cut. Sound at all familiar? It’s the OnlyFans model, complete with a rip-off of the OnlyFans interface. The performers it’s tailor-made for are not, as it happens, cellists or mimes. They’re sex workers. And for discerning high rollers who prefer the backroom to the club, Musk has floated the idea of offering paid DMs—to be slipped into as usual, but for a fee. The online-porn business demands extreme discipline to keep it from turning criminal and leaves room for little else, but edgelord Musk is likely to fare better in the demimonde than he is on the main stage.
At the very end of 2022, NSFW content was the fastest-growing sector of English-language Twitter. It’s the way of the world, especially without diligent moderation. At the same time, the new louche Twitter comes with a harum-scarum idea of “free speech” as singularly applicable to obscene provocateurs like Jordan Peterson and Marjorie Taylor Greene, formerly banned figures who were warmly welcomed back to the site in November. “This is a battle for the future of civilization,” the Chief Twit tweeted. “If free speech is lost even in America, tyranny is all that lies ahead.”
Det skrives også om en TikTok-ifisering av sosiale medier. Hvor Meta eier chat gjennom Messenger og Whatsapp, og TikTok eier denne informasjonen og underholdningen kommer til deg, men hvor er den plattformen som holder i samtalene og fellesskapene? Den plassen er ledig. Discord har en del av denne kaken, men her er det fortsatt åpent. Twitter ser i alle fall ikke ut til å klare å snu seg ditover oppe i alt annet. Axio skriver klokt om dette her.