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Elon's war on Substack

How Twitter is breaking — and its CEO is accelerating its fall

Casey Newton
Apr 11, 2023
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“bluebird wearing a helmet sitting in a military tank, cartoon style / DALL-E”
“bluebird wearing a helmet sitting in a military tank, cartoon style / DALL-E”

Platforms die all sorts of ways, and one of them looks like Ernest Hemingway’s famous description of how one of his characters went bankrupt: gradually, then suddenly.

Twitter is gradually dying, and has been now for months. Over the weekend, though, some of the initial cracks…

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