Ryan Mac

Thanks for having me.

Twitter was such a brand.

But that brand died when Elon took over.

It completely changed.

And it's X now.

There's a lot of public utility, certainly.

And, you know, as emergency services and government agencies realize that, they also flock to Twitter.

I live in California and in San Francisco and LA, and whenever there was an earthquake, you'd hop on and, you know, was that an earthquake?

Exactly.

You know, and people would chime in and be like, yeah, that was a 4.6 epicenter Napa Valley.

You know, it's like...

You could find that very quickly.

But as we remember it, we should also remember that it wasn't this utopia either.

There were plenty of issues with Twitter and it was never this perfect place.

It was not profitable, exactly.

But I think of things like Gamergate, for example.

This online abuse campaign that came from Twitter and there was death threats, that kind of thing.

Remember that Twitter's, one of its founding kind of goals was the free speech wing of the free speech party.

And its founders and its executives started to realize that, you know, actually this like free for all approach to free speech is,

is not maybe the way we want to approach the modern internet and having large groups of people communicate on the open web.