{"id":6305,"date":"2022-07-12T08:36:13","date_gmt":"2022-07-12T06:36:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/07\/12\/what-elons-giving-up-twitters-best-moments-from-boaty-mcboatface-to-trumps-ban\/"},"modified":"2022-07-12T08:36:13","modified_gmt":"2022-07-12T06:36:13","slug":"what-elons-giving-up-twitters-best-moments-from-boaty-mcboatface-to-trumps-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/07\/12\/what-elons-giving-up-twitters-best-moments-from-boaty-mcboatface-to-trumps-ban\/","title":{"rendered":"What Elon\u2019s giving up: Twitter\u2019s best moments \u2013 from Boaty McBoatface to Trump\u2019s ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk says he no longer wants to buy Twitter \u2013 but the social media platform has changed the world, made us laugh, and made us furious. We look at some of its landmark moments<\/p>\n<p>In April, when Elon Musk announced plans to buy Twitter, the platform\u2019s users instantly divided into two clear camps: those who thought that Musk would ruin Twitter, and those who understood that it was already pretty dreadful. Now that Musk has said he is walking away from the deal, a third group is complaining that without an injection of go-getting, Musk-style disruption the platform is doomed to irrelevancy.<\/p>\n<p>Everyone needs to calm down. While Twitter does now primarily operate as a receptacle for the world\u2019s angriest people to scream their least thought-out arguments at each other around the clock, it can still also be a force for good. Since its inception, Twitter has proved that it is brilliant at two key things: accelerating social change, and illuminating the depths of human stupidity. Here are 10 standout moments from Twitter history.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2022\/jul\/12\/what-elons-giving-up-twitters-best-moments-from-boaty-mcboatface-to-trumps-ban\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/18441b7807c3ba39d9a40c504a08405c32702582\/25_0_3245_1949\/master\/3245.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=3c927943440828a999828257b8b30e7d\" title=\"What Elon\u2019s giving up: Twitter\u2019s best moments \u2013 from Boaty McBoatface to Trump\u2019s ban\" \/>Elon Musk says he no longer wants to buy Twitter \u2013 but the social media platform has changed the world, made us laugh, and made us furious. We look at some of its landmark moments<br \/>\nIn April, when Elon Musk announced plans to buy Twitter, the platform\u2019s users instantly divided into two clear camps: those who thought that Musk would ruin Twitter, and those who understood that it was already pretty dreadful. Now that Musk has said he is walking away from the deal, a third group is complaining that without an injection of go-getting, Musk-style disruption the platform is doomed to irrelevancy.<br \/>\nEveryone needs to calm down. While Twitter does now primarily operate as a receptacle for the world\u2019s angriest people to scream their least thought-out arguments at each other around the clock, it can still also be a force for good. Since its inception, Twitter has proved that it is brilliant at two key things: accelerating social change, and illuminating the depths of human stupidity. Here are 10 standout moments from Twitter history. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk says he no longer wants to buy Twitter \u2013 but the social media platform has changed the world, made us laugh, and made us furious. We look at some of its landmark moments In April, when Elon Musk announced plans to buy Twitter, the platform\u2019s users instantly divided into two clear camps: those &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/07\/12\/what-elons-giving-up-twitters-best-moments-from-boaty-mcboatface-to-trumps-ban\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What Elon\u2019s giving up: Twitter\u2019s best moments \u2013 from Boaty McBoatface to Trump\u2019s ban<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":6306,"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\/6305"}],"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=6305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6305\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}