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Since its inception, Twitter has gone from just a major source of media attention to a major fixture of society comparable to [[Facebook|<s>Facebook</s> Meta]], and has been used for various purposes from people organizing protests and civil disobedience to governments engaging with foreign publics and their own citizens. Major events tend to be covered rapidly through the system, and practically every celebrity in Hollywood has a Twitter account.
Or at least it used to be that way. In early 2023 [[Elon Musk]] bought Twitter, allegedly with the goal of eliminating a possibly-imaginary "liberal bias" in its content, and immediately began gutting it, doing things like firing 90% of its staff, eliminating the trustworthiness of the "verified user" blue check flag, deciding to charge several thousand US dollars a month for access to the API and outright threatening large corporate users like NPR and advertisers alike for leaving the platform. As of late spring 2023, it appears to be heading for a death spiral -- and whether this is intentional or a consequence of apparently-incompetent management on Musk's part is unclear.
You can follow [https://twitter.com/ATTropes All The Tropes on Twitter], or browse [[All The Tropes]] "Twitter-style" in the [[Laconic]] namespace.
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* [[Suspiciously Specific Denial]]: The core of [https://twitter.com/shutupmikeginn/status/403359911481839617 this tweet] by actor [[Mike Ginn]] from 2013 - it's since undergone [[Memetic Mutation]] and become a format for invoking this trope with any subject, using a weirdly specific summary statement of your choosing.
{{quote|My "Not involved in human trafficking" T-shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my shirt.}}
* [[Take That]]: After Elon Musk's purchase and "restructuring" of Twitter, the service's Public Relations department has been reduced to a simple mailbot which replies to all emails with a "poop" emoji.
* [[The New Rock and Roll]]: As with much of then-new social media, particularly near the turn of the decade into [[The New Tens]].
* [[The Tetris Effect]]: In addition to hashtags being nigh-synonymous with Twitter itself, the practice of "@-replies" has spread to other blog comments and forums. From Cheezburger Network's "Failbooking":
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