I'm thinking of Twitter servers right now sort of like a machine that's been unplugged but has a big flywheel that's still spinning to keep it going. How long will it keep spinning? That *is* the question.
@lauren The other question is what lies in the path of the flywheel should it break free and start crushing things.
@mattblaze @lauren It already crushed your democracy; Twitter elected a reality TV star president of the US. Also it revived neo-Nazism. How much worse can it get?
@lauren @mattblaze Well, at least Space Karen has fired most of the people who built the Twitter that crushed your democracy. Maybe it will get better instead of worse. For example, by not existing.
@radehi @mattblaze Don't give Twitter that much credit. It was a player, but by no means the only one.
@lauren @mattblaze Sure, but I think Twitter was more important than 4chan, 8chan, Kiwi Farms, Zerohedge, Infowars, and YouTube put together; most of those platforms relied on Twitter for recruiting and for meme propagation. Twitter excels at getting people riled up for mob violence in a way that no other medium ever has. President Trump could never have existed without it.
So, what will the future look like for it?
@radehi @mattblaze There is no practical bottom.