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Does a Social Media Network Deserve a Eulogy?

By the time this publishes, Twitter may already be a memory – or more likely in today’s culture, a slew of memes being passed around whatever site the larger gaggle of “very online” people migrate to next.

Many writers smarter than I am have already spilled millions of words about Twitter’s eventual demise, why it once mattered a great deal, and how that descending relevance was sped up by Elon Musk’s recent acquisition. The guy who ran this place before me wrote a particularly interesting one a couple weeks back if you missed it, with regard to once-vaunted “sports Twitter.