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The year Twitter died: a special series from The Verge (www.theverge.com)
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[–] Fredselfish@lemmy.world 12 points 9 months ago

Yep was a great way to reach politicians and people could hsve direct effect on companies. Because when people took their complaints to Twitter it got shit fixed quick.

Elon saw all this people joke but his goal from day one was to destroy the platform and render it useless for us small folk.

Because at one time it was a powerful tool we could of used to organize and get shit done.