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Is Elon Musk Still Buying Twitter or What?
The relationship everyone loves to hate this season is back on again.
In the vast reality television program that is social media, Twitter stands out among all the rest.
Facebook, that is, Meta, has become the purview of Baby Boomers and advertisers. Instagram is little better, fewer Boomers and more advertisements, perhaps. Ditto Youtube. Those who really eschew social media use Pintrest and Next Door; no one over the age of 21 understands the appeal of TikTok.
Somewhere in the middle, there is Twitter.
Or, at least, for approximately 1 in 5 Americans, there is Twitter.
All Twitter estimates are approximate. Though Twitter’s board of directors insists only 5% of Twitter’s users are fake accounts and bots, almost no one believes that. Certainly not anyone who has paid for more Twitter followers.
To say so publicly is to casually accuse one of the biggest, most powerful and influential companies in the world of some pretty serious securities fraud. That hasn’t stopped thousands of Twitter users, media personalities and others from doing just that.
Ironically, one of Twitter’s biggest critics is also one of Twitter’s biggest, most vocal and longtime fans.