Sensing an imminent breakdown, communities mourn a bygone Twitter
NPRSensing an imminent breakdown, communities mourn a bygone Twitter Enlarge this image toggle caption Gregory Bull/AP Gregory Bull/AP Twitter's recent trending hashtags, like #RIPTwitter and #TwitterDown, have signaled a virtual wake for the website as if it were already dead. Whether Twitter collapses, Musk's major changes, including his overhaul of the verification system, have already sent people fleeing the site for other social media platforms. That was a theme he noted after he and Buzzfeed tech reporter Katie Notopoulos hosted a three-hour long conversation on Twitter Spaces on Thursday night "to say goodbye" to the site. "I have relied on Black Twitter for so much," Padgett told NPR's All Things Considered. While Musk said Friday that Twitter will demote "negative/hate tweets" on the platform, he has yet to define what that entails or say whether Twitter's current hate speech and harassment policies will remain effective.
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