How Twitter lost its place as the global town square

Twitter is hemorrhaging relevance, and Meta's Threads made an impressive debut, but TikTok is the social media app to beat.

A series of disastrous missteps over the past year has robbed Twitter of its relevance

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Twitter never was „the global town square!“
Article is paywalled

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It will never cease to amaze me how obsessed with and addicted to Twitter these journalists are. When Elmo trolled NPR by labeling them "state-affiliated media," NPR itself ran indignant and breathless coverage of it for days -- they just couldn't help themselves.