Twitter is sold. But like buying a house, it doesn’t close and become Elon’s Twitter for a while yet. So why did Twitter begin to feel so much lighter yesterday afternoon? Why did entrenched liberals begin complaining they were suddenly losing thousands of followers?
I think the most immediate breath of fresh air was a massive psychological lift. Conservative voices suddenly felt a yoke that had been strapped over their social media access become lighter. Right away I began seeing multiple posts saying things like “Biden cheated” “81 million votes my a$$” “I love Trump” and “Can I say vaccine now?”
People en mass began testing the Twitter waters, basically weighing out what they could now express in Elon’s future town square. Yes, there were a few nasty replies and even personal attacks. But everyone got to step out of their algorithmic boxed-in corners. It’s as if the elephant who had been held by a tiny chain suddenly realized they were far more powerful than the weak links around one ankle.
But something else was also happening in the background. Thousands of “bots” swarming and manipulating the platform were removed by the operators who saw the writing on the wall. For whatever reason, whether that be having political ties or corporate ties, they can not risk being revealed. Elon is indeed poised to pulling the curtain back on a lot of unconstitutional policies and plain illegal behaviors with nasty intent.
The past week, the bots literally swarmed over any tweet with the word “Musk” in it. On Monday afternoon, the amount of automated bot responses dropped significantly. Suddenly my wish I tweeted out last week came true: “I want Titter to have a sense of humor again.” (Intentional misspelling alluding to Elon’s humorous poll “Shall we remove the W from Twitter?). Hilarious memes and posts began flooding the platform. It was a wonderful party atmosphere on the platform.
That said, understand the new boss will not be walking through the door for up to six months from now. So the truth is Dorothy, you’ve had the power inside of you all along. One of the best demonstrations of this was a poll tweeted by a liberal early yesterday afternoon. He posted, “This poll will probably be spread by republicans and skew the results, but I’ll still ask.” Clearly it has equal chance to be retweeted by all opinions. But they are so used to displaying “gang up, bullying” behaviors that they expect it in return.
The poll was “If Musk gives Trump his Twitter account back, will you stay on Twitter? The results after only 5 hours:
Stunning. It’s true, even on Twitter. “There are far more of us than there are of ‘them’”. And all this time, they thought their censorship-protected opinions were the “popular” opinion.
Good work, Patriots. You’ve already begun to change the zeitgeist on Twitter. Even before the new boss takes charge. Let’s keep having fun.
Love that!!! Great post !!!