Kara Swisher and Nayeema Raza talk to Zoë Schiffer and Ryan Mac about Twitter’s growing irrelevance.
Photo-Illustration: Intelligencer; Photo: CHANDAN KHANNA/AFP via Getty Imageshas slowly but surely made the place worse in just about every single way. Tech glitches abound after he laid off the vast majority of workers; newly verified Musk fanboys users swarm replies with trollish nonsense; and the CEO himself fans outrage almost daily with outlandish conspiracy theories.
Nayeema Raza: Does anyone else want to comment on Ryan’s because he doesn’t want to comment on his own situation? Kara Swisher: See, I think he’s being disingenuous a lot of the time. You noticed that last night in the CNBC thing with the guy in Allen, Texas. David Faber from CNBC asked about the situation in Allen, Texas, these shootings, and he kept insisting this guy, with no proof whatsoever, was not a white supremacist when even the Texas government is saying that. You know what I mean? I feel like if you’re wearing a swastika tattoo, you’re pretty far along in the white supremacist group.
Nayeema Raza: This is the thing. Just to wrap the Arab Spring of it all. Back then, in the Arab Spring, Twitter had two things. For a long time it has relevance and reliability. When Trump came in, it had maybe even more relevance because it became the president’s primary platform for communicating in a lot of ways. I’m curious right now what you guys think. Give it a grade on relevance and then on reliability.
Nayeema Raza: There’s like, there’s a kind of blue tick jungle. The “for you” algorithm sucks. All you see is Elon. I mean there’s a lot of problems with the product overall. I don’t know, Kara, I know you’ll give it a grade. Give it a grade on relevance and reliability.
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