{"id":7631,"date":"2022-11-01T08:37:52","date_gmt":"2022-11-01T07:37:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/11\/01\/could-elon-musks-era-spell-the-end-of-social-media-billionaires-richard-seymour\/"},"modified":"2022-11-01T08:37:52","modified_gmt":"2022-11-01T07:37:52","slug":"could-elon-musks-era-spell-the-end-of-social-media-billionaires-richard-seymour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/11\/01\/could-elon-musks-era-spell-the-end-of-social-media-billionaires-richard-seymour\/","title":{"rendered":"Could Elon Musk\u2019s era spell the end of social media billionaires? | Richard Seymour"},"content":{"rendered":"

Twitter\u2019s biggest tryhard has taken over the platform, but the social media industry could be heading for multiple crises<\/p>\n

Twitter has been taken over by its least interesting troll for $44bn. When Elon Musk took a stake in the platform, he claimed it was to ensure the \u201cfuture of civilisation\u201d and preserve a \u201ccommon digital town square<\/a>\u201d. Roughly translated, that means the world\u2019s richest man has bought his favourite megaphone.<\/p>\n

Musk, with 112.1 million followers, is an obsessive Twitter tryhard: the attention economy\u2019s biggest attention-seeker. From baselessly calling a British diver a \u201cpedo<\/a>\u201d, to his baffling stunt at Twitter HQ \u2013 turning up with a kitchen sink<\/a> and uttering the punchline, \u201clet that sink in\u201d \u2013 he clearly thinks comedy is his metier. He reminds me of Christopher Hitchens\u2019 barb about an enemy: he \u201cthinks he\u2019s a wit and is half right\u201d.<\/p>\n

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\nTwitter\u2019s biggest tryhard has taken over the platform, but the social media industry could be heading for multiple crises
\nTwitter has been taken over by its least interesting troll for $44bn. When Elon Musk took a stake in the platform, he claimed it was to ensure the \u201cfuture of civilisation\u201d and preserve a \u201ccommon digital town square\u201d. Roughly translated, that means the world\u2019s richest man has bought his favourite megaphone.
\nMusk, with 112.1 million followers, is an obsessive Twitter tryhard: the attention economy\u2019s biggest attention-seeker. From baselessly calling a British diver a \u201cpedo\u201d, to his baffling stunt at Twitter HQ \u2013 turning up with a kitchen sink and uttering the punchline, \u201clet that sink in\u201d \u2013 he clearly thinks comedy is his metier. He reminds me of Christopher Hitchens\u2019 barb about an enemy: he \u201cthinks he\u2019s a wit and is half right\u201d. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Twitter\u2019s biggest tryhard has taken over the platform, but the social media industry could be heading for multiple crises Twitter has been taken over by its least interesting troll for $44bn. When Elon Musk took a stake in the platform, he claimed it was to ensure the \u201cfuture of civilisation\u201d and preserve a \u201ccommon digital …<\/p>\n

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