Sam Sanders
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first heard Mar 2025
last heard 3 Jun
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Over time, it grew into something much, much bigger, with hundreds of millions of users all across the globe.
And while it was never perfect, many people saw Twitter as an online public square, a place to share and connect with people you'd never met,
In 2022, Elon Musk bought Twitter for $44 billion.
He then cut the staff by about 80%, dismantled many of the platform's content moderation systems, incorporated the AI chatbot Grok into the platform, and got rid of Twitter's name.
That's Ryan Mack.
He's a tech reporter for The New York Times.
He wrote the book Character Limit, How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter, with his colleague at The Times, Kate Conger.
Kate says that while X is a fundamentally different place now, it's still an active and important part of the Internet.
It's been about 20 years since Twitter was created.
So I sat down with Kate and Ryan to talk about the promise of Twitter at the beginning, how it evolved over the years, and what that evolution tells us about social media and its role in society today.
Let's talk for a minute about what Twitter was.
Take folks back to that peak of Twitter, Twitter.
What was this company and this platform like?
I love that you use the word utility because I remember for years when there were natural disasters occurring across the country or the globe or even mass shootings.
The places where survivors, responders, and journalists went for the most up-to-date news about these things, it came from Twitter.
And a lot of the terminology around Twitter and what it used to be, it used the word public, a public good and a public square.
And it wasn't profitable for many, many years.
Yeah, yeah.
I want to go back and spend a little bit of time tracing Elon Musk's entrance into Twitter and then his purchase of it.
What was Elon Musk on Twitter in the early days like?
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