{"id":14261,"date":"2024-04-27T20:37:15","date_gmt":"2024-04-27T18:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/27\/the-demise-of-twitter-how-a-utopian-vision-for-social-media-became-a-toxic-mess\/"},"modified":"2024-04-27T20:37:15","modified_gmt":"2024-04-27T18:37:15","slug":"the-demise-of-twitter-how-a-utopian-vision-for-social-media-became-a-toxic-mess","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/27\/the-demise-of-twitter-how-a-utopian-vision-for-social-media-became-a-toxic-mess\/","title":{"rendered":"The demise of Twitter: How a \u2018utopian vision\u2019 for social media became a \u2018toxic mess\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the early days it was seen as a place for \u2018genuine public discourse\u2019, but users have fled since Elon Musk took over. What went wrong?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Get our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/email-newsletters?CMP=cvau_sfl\">morning and afternoon news emails<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/app.adjust.com\/w4u7jx3\">free app<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/series\/full-story?CMP=cvau_sfl\">daily news podcast<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If anything is emblematic of the demise of Twitter, it is the rise and stall of the account of Oprah Winfrey.<\/p>\n<p>Oprah joined the platform in 2009, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Oprah\/status\/1542224596\">tweeting for the first time<\/a> live from her wildly popular TV show: \u201cHI TWITTERS. THANK YOU FOR A WARM WELCOME. FEELING REALLY 21st CENTURY.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2021\/dec\/21\/sign-up-for-five-great-reads-guardian-australias-wrap-of-our-best-summer-stories\">Sign up for a weekly email featuring our best reads<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2024\/apr\/28\/the-demise-of-twitter-how-a-utopian-vision-for-social-media-became-a-toxic-mess\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/848183bb236cf428e06e8222b16c742c270cffea\/0_182_5472_3283\/master\/5472.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=2a2fe51e3a997b0debd4626131d0703d\" title=\"The demise of Twitter: How a \u2018utopian vision\u2019 for social media became a \u2018toxic mess\u2019\" \/>In the early days it was seen as a place for \u2018genuine public discourse\u2019, but users have fled since Elon Musk took over. What went wrong?<br \/>\nGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcast<\/p>\n<p>If anything is emblematic of the demise of Twitter, it is the rise and stall of the account of Oprah Winfrey.<br \/>\nOprah joined the platform in 2009, tweeting for the first time live from her wildly popular TV show: \u201cHI TWITTERS. THANK YOU FOR A WARM WELCOME. FEELING REALLY 21st CENTURY.\u201d<br \/>\nSign up for a weekly email featuring our best reads Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the early days it was seen as a place for \u2018genuine public discourse\u2019, but users have fled since Elon Musk took over. What went wrong? Get our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcast If anything is emblematic of the demise of Twitter, it is the rise and stall of &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/27\/the-demise-of-twitter-how-a-utopian-vision-for-social-media-became-a-toxic-mess\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The demise of Twitter: How a \u2018utopian vision\u2019 for social media became a \u2018toxic mess\u2019<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":14262,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14261"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14261\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}