From: monty@roscom.com   
      
   The Great Delusion Behind Twitter   
      
   For what feels like ages, we’ve been told that Twitter is, or needs to   
   be, the world’s town square. That was Dick Costolo’s line in 2013,   
   when he was Twitter’s chief executive (“We think of it as the global   
   town square”), and Jack Dorsey, one of Twitter’s founders, used it,   
   too, in 2018 (“People use Twitter as a digital public square”). Now   
   the line comes from the “chief twit,” Elon Musk (“The reason I   
   acquired Twitter is because it is important to the future of   
   civilization to have a common digital town square”).   
      
   This metaphor is wrong on three levels.   
      
   https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/11/opinion/what-twitter-can-lear   
   -from-quakers.html   
      
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