The year Twitter died: a special series from The Verge

Twitter was so many things.

Elon Musk killed Twitter. First, he did it figuratively: firing most employees, destabilizing it as a technology and a business, leaving the platform virtually unusable for those who remained. Then, he killed it literally: renaming it X, giving Twitter a final ending after 15 years of chaotic existence.

But in death, there is understanding - now that it's over, we can reckon with what Twitter really was: a news cycle accelerator, a tool of mass harassment, an idealistic money-losing workplace, and an infinite joke machine.

2023 will go down as...

THE YEAR TWITTER DIED

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• Haunted moon
• Blue check
• Jack Dorsey with Death and Bitcoin
• Unicorn
• Macaulay Culkin
• Really big beet
• Karen
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