There is evidence to show that a lot of liberal or left leaving accounts are losing followers and that right wing accounts are gaining some followers. Heavy tweeters account for less than 10% of monthly overall users, but generate 90% of all tweets and half of the company's revenue. So Twitter has already kind of a broken platform and it had this problem of users leaving. And you know, I think Elon can either fix that best case scenario or make it even worse by turning Twitter into a more toxic place.
Twitter is about to suck for you. But it’s going to suck for self-proclaimed “Chief Twit” Elon Musk too. Recode’s Shirin Ghaffary and The Verge’s Nilay Patel explain.
This episode was produced by Amanda Lewellyn and Miles Bryan, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Paul Robert Mounsey, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.
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