• kaitco@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Twitter’s success wasn’t monetary. The success came in allowing ordinary people their soapbox at a global town square.

    Look at what happened to the price of insulin with a single tweet made back when all the blue checks were in complete free-for-all. A single tweet, made by a random person, thoroughly changed the shape of that one industry. Twitter gave “power” to the people, and those like Musk weren’t comfortable with that.