Is Twitter the Town Square?

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i think this may be the beginning of the end of kind of big social and i think that may be a really good thing. It's actually, like, relative to facebook or a lot of other social applications, like it's small, and it's like driven by sort of media eletes and political aleites,. But it's not nearly as part of people's lives as some of the other platforms that are coming up. The way that argument works is, like, elon takes it on. He can't actually hold together the coalition that kind of makes makes twitter work. Meanwhile, whereas it used to be technically really hard to build a global communications medium, that's getting like,

Why did Elon Musk buy Twitter? What does he plan to do with it? Is this the end of big social or a chance to reinvent it? This week, we’re interrupting our regularly scheduled programming to answer those questions with two of the smartest internet commentators we know: Eli Pariser, co-founder of Upworthy and author of “The Filter Bubble”; and Steven Johnson, writer, podcaster, and TV host.

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