Elon Musk Finally Has His Everything App

Is Twitter back? At The Atlantic, Charlie Warzel argues that while Twitter, now X, is a “rat’s nest of reckless speculation, angry partisans, and toxicity,” it’s also “alive in a way that’s hard to quantify,” after weeks of major breaking-news events. The platform’s pull for elites is awkward, he notes: News of Joe Biden’s withdrawal from the presidential race was first shared and consumed on a service owned by a guy who has endorsed Trump and reportedly intends to support him financially. Casey Newton of Platformer disagrees. Threads is ascendant, he says. Meanwhile, X is the “sunk-cost social network,” occasionally flashing back into relevance due to the old reflexes of a political class with “no interest in mastering a new platform.” At Business Insider, Hasan Chowdhury says recent events have “reinforced” the case for X as the “internet’s digital town square,” while Peter Kafka notesthat, despite its genuine stickiness for some users, its business is still a complete wreck.

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