Hey friends, a new post for your weekend reading 😘
"Twitter is dead. It has been replaced by something we have never seen before: a blend of highly engaged, influential media/political accounts posting happily inside the newly formed infrastructure of a seething, hate-soaked racist right-wing fever swamp.
My late-2022 assumption that moral disgust would cause a rapid collapse in X’s user base was wrong. I should have predicted this, knowing that assumption is the mother of all fuckups. X has become as mean-spirited as predicted, but it hasn’t collapsed, and it hasn’t suffered a major loss of its user base"
Featuring an update of my 2023 analysis of climate deniers and pro-climate-action accounts, and some thoughts on why X has retained such a massive user base, despite months and months of ever-worsening problems.