EPISODE 713: DOES ANYONE STILL HAVE A KEVIN?

GOTTA STAY PRAYED UP

POP CULTURE SPIRIT WOW

If you had “Insane tech billionaire buys Twitter and destroys it before he even took over” on your 2022 Bingo Card, Bravo you, because I gotta say, I did not see that coming.

Twitter, or as it is affectionately known by its users, “this hellscape,” has a problem, and it rhymes with “People go there and say horrible things to strangers, especially women, queer people and minorities.” You can be anonymous there in a way you can’t on Facebook, and that has created a space where a lot of people feel unsafe.

Bizarrely it’s also been a pretty vibrant community of smart and talented people doing their thing. I would go so far as to say that it’s built to be a generous space in a way that Facebook is not. Facebook first and foremost wants you to talk about your own life; post photos, tell us your status; share your likes and hates. That’s the kind of information it can sell and that generates more sharing, liking and hating.

Twitter tends much more toward the “I wrote this…