Yesterday, I wrote about NPR dumping Twitter because Elon Musk slapped a “government-funded media” label on their Twitter account. At the time, I said this:
This could be the start of other news organizations dumping Twitter. Which will add to the death spiral that Twitter is already in as nobody wants to go someplace where there is no content to view. Perhaps Elon should have thought about that before he decided to slap “government-funded media” labels on both NPR and BBC.
Today, we have PBS announcing that it will be dumping Twitter as well:
The public broadcaster joined NPR in saying it is no longer interested in sharing its content on the platform, after owner Elon Musk slapped a “government-funded” label on its account, which carries more than 2 million followers.
“PBS stopped tweeting from our account when we learned of the change and we have no plans to resume at this time,”a spokesman for the outlet told The Hill. “We are continuing to monitor the ever-changing situation closely.”
Well, that’s going to sting. And it validates that this is going to be one of those situations where you’re likely to see other news outlets do the same thing. But that’s over the medium to long term. In the short term, I wonder how Elon will react to this. In his typical immature way, he posted this Tweet after NPR dumped Twitter:
I fully expect something equally as immature from Elon at any time. Which shows you what type of person he is.
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PBS Dumps Twitter…. I Wonder In What Immature Way Will Elon Musk React To This?
Yesterday, I wrote about NPR dumping Twitter because Elon Musk slapped a “government-funded media” label on their Twitter account. At the time, I said this:
This could be the start of other news organizations dumping Twitter. Which will add to the death spiral that Twitter is already in as nobody wants to go someplace where there is no content to view. Perhaps Elon should have thought about that before he decided to slap “government-funded media” labels on both NPR and BBC.
Today, we have PBS announcing that it will be dumping Twitter as well:
The public broadcaster joined NPR in saying it is no longer interested in sharing its content on the platform, after owner Elon Musk slapped a “government-funded” label on its account, which carries more than 2 million followers.
“PBS stopped tweeting from our account when we learned of the change and we have no plans to resume at this time,”a spokesman for the outlet told The Hill. “We are continuing to monitor the ever-changing situation closely.”
Well, that’s going to sting. And it validates that this is going to be one of those situations where you’re likely to see other news outlets do the same thing. But that’s over the medium to long term. In the short term, I wonder how Elon will react to this. In his typical immature way, he posted this Tweet after NPR dumped Twitter:
I fully expect something equally as immature from Elon at any time. Which shows you what type of person he is.
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