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We Don’t Need a New Twitter | The New Yorker

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It’s time to move beyond the flawed idea of a global conversation platform.

Save this story Save this story In early July, Meta introduced Threads , a text-posting social-media application that was clearly designed to steal market share from Twitter, which continues to struggle under the leadership of Elon Musk . Adam Mosseri, the executive in charge of Threads, recently explained that the goal of the service is “to create a public square for communities on Instagram that never really embraced Twitter and for communities on Twitter (and other platforms) that are interested in a less angry place for conversations.” Chris Cox, Meta’s chief product officer, was more blun

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