Opinion: Larry Wilson: X no longer marks the tweet spot
I have nothing as such against X.The band called X — motto, Got there first, dude! — are in a forever dead heat with Los Lobos as the greatest Southern California rock music makers of the 1980s . Viva Exene, John Doe, Billy Zoom, DJ Bonebreak!
The X I’m having a problem with is the new social media platform X that was the old social medium platform Twitter until new owner Elon Musk took the tweetie out of the bird.Not much of a poster, more of a lurker. Since signing up as @publiceditor in June 2009 I’ve mostly put up my twice-weekly newspaper columns from our website and then scrolled the little blue pajaro for news.
The last time I did so — hey, it was really interesting, and a relief from today’s awful politics: A letter from reggae genius Lee “Scratch” Perry to Japanese officials back when Paul McCartney was jailed for weed! — I was severely admonished by my college roommate: “Love you, Lar-dog, but please no more Twitter s… to my phone. You gotta quit that fascist groove thing.”
Being a journalist, and thus addicted to the news, with Twitter a very easy place to follow the news — and for all I know, it still is — I did not quit. I just stopped forwarding stuff. And then, a week or so ago, the thing happened that made me at least quiet-quit Twit. The little blue bird disappeared from the app on my home screen one morning. In its place, a white X on a black background. I couldn’t put my finger on it and open it up, as I usually would have, that moment, and I haven’t done so since.
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