The year Twitter died: a special series from The Verge

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The year Twitter died: a special series from The Verge

https://www.theverge.com/c/23972308/twitter-x-death-tweets-history-elon-musk

The platform was a news accelerator, a tool of mass harassment, and an infinite joke machine.

The year Twitter died: a special series from The Verge

The platform was a news accelerator, a tool of mass harassment, and an infinite joke machine.

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The project seems a little self indulgent: a bunch of terminally online columnists hyperbolizing at the importance and decline of Twitter.

But I did enjoy https://www.theverge.com/c/features/23997516/harassment-twitter-sarah-jeong-canceled-social-change

What in the good goddamn is that travesty of a website. Its like Web 1.0 written by doctor seuss. I kept expecting to scroll into an ad for Space Jam.

The colours, fonts, and pull quotes are awful. But aside from the entire aesthetic, it's pretty cool to see what you can do with CSS these days.

Awful layout... Some interesting stuff when you can actually find the articles though