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The death of Twitter

 Twitter was never great. It was a place full of rumours innuendos and stupid stuff. However, it was still a place where experts were local people could exchange information that could be valuable was not always valuable but could be valuable.

Twitter is no longer that first it’s called X and not Twitter anymore, but it seems to be only there to amplify the crazy thoughts The crazy talk and devoid of any useful purpose.

When they only voice you hear in the public Square is fire fire fire you stop paying attention. The evidence is overwhelming that X Is something new but is it something anyone has any use for?

The funny thing is how much of the Internet is now useless. Most news aggregators are full of nothing. The news is the headline and the headline is the news. There is no analysis. Nobody no thought clearly all produced by robots.

All this is is to show that the Internet is finally growing up. Paywalls are back at full strength.  After years of not paying for the news, the news is no longer free. it is a new world of either utter bullshit or learn information available to only those who pay for it. If you think about it, there was Freeform before it was called newspaper left on the bus that no longer exist either if you were poor, you could before stand outside a newspapers’s office and read today’s newspaper in the windows and a lot of people  did.



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