is black twitter's future now? after elon musk turned twitter into x, the online community already felt in limbo. and now, with a lot of users leaving, are not just engaging with the platform post-election, could the culture survive on alternative platforms like blue sky, which have seen a recent surge in interest andre brock is an associate professor at georgia tech, where he researches cyber cultures like black twitter. he's also the author of distributed blackness african american cyber cultures andre, thank you for being with me. um, is that your characterization? let me come to you. authority on black social media and cyber cultures. are we defining black twitter the right way here absolutely tell me more i knew you were going to say that. >> um, so black twitter is absolutely a generative space for black culture. and identity. one unanticipated by previous media forms because of its interactivity and near real time modes of communication. and as such, it has been both responsive to things of the moment, but a

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but i am closing my twitter account. >> reporter: users of x, formally twitter, say they are done with platform on the eve of a big change. tomorrow, the company adopt a new terms of service that explicitly states "by using twitter, you agree to use your post to train ai," with no way to opt out. >> if you post some text, a photo, a video, twitter can put it into its large language model training database. >> reporter: twitter could no personal information about you and create content using your image, even prior to these new terms, the day after the election, twitter lost more users than any day since elon musk bought it in 2022. >> there are a few things fueling the exodus. the first is the change in terms of service. the other is just the presence of elon musk and what has happened to the platform and the overwhelming amount of content there that is really focused on the new president, donald trump, and also just fold right-wing information, conspiracy theories, and posts. >> reporter: other social media sites reaping the benefits. blue sky welcoming 2.5 million new users in the las

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up next democrats leave twitter because they are bitter. >>> a story in five words. >>> twitter is deadon. the guardian wonders if then end is near for twitter as progressive users deactivate their accounts because they hate hell laud mosque into trump heading to blue sky. what you make of it is it over? >> we've heard so many times there's this thing wrong even before it was called twitter. everybody was saying this thing is going to last longer than that it's like a kat they keep thinking it's going to die but it keeps on living and i also feel like if you remember before elon a lot of these people who said it was over at the most engagement and it was skewed towards them so of course they feel they aren't in the physician anymore so they are saying it's over because it's not working for them as much. >> i went over there it's so strange. it's a place for people he don't want to face the election so it's mark cuban george conway pictures of sea animals. it's fine and when you're sight houseless flying rocket ships i think your other businesses are doing fine. i also established forget

yeah, so do i. >> let's stick to twitter. the journalists are remaining on twitter because it's useful. it's useful. i wonder if but twitter's essential for journalists and it's essential for getting your stories out. carries on being so had twitter been what it is now, i doubt that as many journalists and politicians would have joined 15 years ago. >> i bet they would, because it was the first mover. and in these technologies, it's first mover advantage and musk is in favour of freedom of speech. that's why he's such a good thing. >> but but he's also also a purveyor of fake news. i mean , purveyor of fake news. i mean, he's he's not. yes he is. personally, people put fake news on he he said that britain was britain was about to have an inevitable civil war. he retweeted a post which that was when things were going badly wrong and there were riots all over the country. we were going to detain rioters in the falklands, he said that there were policies to deport thought through rather than going to rwanda. were were being rele

i think what we're likely to see is not a single x or twitter replacement. we're not gonna see a single sort of short form text based uh, a platform that replaces what twitter was a few years ago. but i think what we're likely to see is the social media environment continue to look more like the traditional media environment where it's heavily fractured it and you see a number of different platforms of you end up becoming relative. we wrote boston and permanent, but i think it's, it's probably unlikely especially given how many right leaning accounts are going to remain on acts for, for there to be a wholesale replacement of what twitter used to be. yeah. yeah. fracturing may continue. these anderson, executive director of new york university center for social media and politics seem to talking with you. thank you. thanks so much. what you the more in ukraine now where it keeps as north korean troops are already engaging with ukrainian soldiers fueling for years of a major escalation. russia and north korea have recently strings in their military cooperation

it's 11. musk bought what was called twitter back in 2022. since the end users and advertisers have left and drove jeff to musk relax the control of content, most support for donald trump has provoked another exodus of users. the british newspaper, the guardian quit on thursday, and the us novel. this is stephen king. he has joined them. he tweeted, i'm leaving twitter tried to stay, but the atmosphere was just or become to toxic. and he said to his 7000000 ex followers following me on threads if you like. already from morning i want to bring in is eve sanderson, who's the executive director of new york university center for social media and politics. steve, it's good to have you with this. so we've got stephen king, he's joining the exit is just like the british newspaper, the guardian. but there's nothing new about the concerns over what x has become since must take over. so why of the, why are they leaving so late? or yeah, it's a good question. so obviously this isn't a trend that's just starting now. um, that being said, i also want to n

they do, i went to twitter and um, i came out of there and it, to me, it was very obvious, but twitter was very much allied with the democratic party. it's why the and really began attacking, you know, you log boss. i think a lot of these other companies are also, you know, me before you, me upgrade, you know that before we bought to his right before he bought teresa? correct. yeah. right, exactly. i mean, but i mean, the reason why you lot, mazda is so despises great. he took away the democratic parties, censorship choice. you know, you can see it internally. i mean, as soon as he started, even pretend he was going to buy it all the story. this is a guy who was man of the year on the front page of time. and then from there, once he started talking about buying twitter, all these story started floating up about how he was, you know, allied against transgender, white nationalism, anti semitism, you name it like the story that is coming left to right. here's one of the craziest media one eighty's i think i've ever seen the light. and that read did kind of told me what was going on is you

it's one must bought what was called twitter back in 2022. since then, users and advertisers have left in drugs after most relaxed the control of content . most of the support for donald trump has provoked another exodus of users. the british newspaper, the guardian quit on thursday and the us novel, this is stephen king. he has joined them. he tweeted, i'm leaving twitter tried to stay, but the atmosphere was just or become to toxic. and he said to his 7000000 ex followers, following me on threads, if you like right from the morning i want to bring in is eve sanderson, who's the executive director of new york university center for social media and politics. steve, it's good to have you with this. so we've got stephen king, he's joining the exodus just like the british newspaper, the guardian. but there's nothing new about the concerns over what x has become since must take over. so why are they, why are they leaving? so late yeah, it's a good question. so obviously this isn't a trend that just starting now. um that being said, i was gonna pu

it's been suggested on twitter that there be like a government version of the twitter files. and some of his wealthy backers immediately jumped on the idea as a good one. so it would be great if that happened. yeah, i can't imagine that the logistics of that would be easy because they would have to be, is a considerable amount of sorting before you let us know. you can just do what do you want it and just let a whole team of journalists run a rep, rummage around and, and all the files. but it would be great if they opened up everything from the jack is assassination to you know, the rationale for going to a rack for entering the ask in more for, you know, the reason for, for staying in afghanistan for covert. i mean, there's a 1000000 things that the public has very legitimate questions about, and it wouldn't be wise for trump to open up some of that information. and yet, bump a was at the rallies towards the end of his campaign, who had coordinated assassination attempts against julia. massage of wiki leaks because you're talking in a sense of like a government regallix a. y

on twitter and the twitter mobs coming after you and the kind of progressive politics that was able to punch up from twitter more or less feels disbanded under x. i mean, am i wrong? part of that is because people are still like, oh, my god, what about this? >> and i'm like, algorithm has changed significantly. and a lot of those activist voices have been quelled. many of them don't pop up in people's regular search engines. instead, you're hearing a lot more from the right. and part of that is because that's how elon set it up. he amplifies the voices of the right wing. he amplifies his own voice, and he's trying to ensure that, you know, all voices are not heard equally. and we've seen that time and time again but i think that also contributes to maybe the left feeling like they've lost a microphone. >> and another thing, i think the left just doesn't like what they're hearing. that's why they're all running to this blue sky thing that they want to do. now. i think a lot of these people don't want to hear conservative voices. that's that's the far left. they don't like hearing thi

why in the tagline of the book, i say twitter didn't elon didn't break twitter, twitter broke elon musk because he went from a person that walter isaacson would write a biography about to a person that i believe walter would never write a biography about today. and i think i'll leave it at that and send it over to you, because i have i have like so many questions, actually. but i guess i'll do i'll sort of introduce myself in my book a little, and then we can go back and forth a little bit and then take take your questions. but yeah, because i was i spent most of my career as what would have been like just such an extremely minor character in one of your movies that they would have been written out early. but i'm a journalist and so i had the good luck to be kind of coming of age as the internet totally swamped the journalism business and so started a bunch of blogs early in my career and then was at politico.com covering barack obama and hillary clinton in 2008. and, you know, just sort of feeling the extent to which people were obsessed with that campaign and were kind of maddened by

i am about to delete my twitter. >> i don't know about y'all but i am closing my twitter accounts. >>orter: users of x, formally twitter say they are done with the platform on the eve of a big change. tomorrow, the company will adopt new terms of service that explicitly state by using x you are agreeing to let your post be used to train a.i. with seemingly no way to opt out >> if you posted a text, a photo, a video, x can suck it up and put it in the training base. >> reporter: then x can know information about you and create content using your image and prior to this the day after the election x lost more users than any day since musk bought it in 2022 >> there are a few things fueling the exodus, first is the change of service and the other is presence of elon musk and what happened to the platform and the overwhelming amount of content this there that is focused on the new president, donald trump, and full right wing information conspiracy theories and posts. >> reporter: other social media sites reaping the benefits, blue sky welcoming 2.5 and meta's threats is up 15 million. >> w

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, twitter .itter, twitter. so they made an announcement to readers. i don't know why they have to announce it. it's like they'd announce they're leaving a party and oh, i'm leaving the party because there's pineapple in the potato salad and the sangria is warm. i don't know, like just just go. but they said they considered the benefits of being on the platform were now outweighed by the negatives, citing the often disturbing content and misinformation found on it. but there's going to be a bit less now because the guardian's not going to be on it and they post a whole bunch of stuff . they've complained here. stuff. they've complained here. they're moaning about far right conspiracy theories and racism, but considering they find everything. the guardian runs articles several times a day saying teacups are racist, pot plants are racist, the air is racist, everything is racist to these people, and some of the far right conspiracy theories that they talk about are now just like 50% of the time they

twitter/x users are making the move to blue sky, one of the biggest upheavals and social media history point >> good evening, i'm jason johnson in for joy reid grid it has been just 13 days since the election. donald trump has already set a modern record for announcing his pics to serve in his incoming administration. but as he may be learning, there is a reason that president elects take their time to research and actually vet each pick, because just as quickly as he can make the announcements, the controversies are piling up and calling into question some of his choices to fill the most high-profile and sensitive jobs running our country. over the weekend, we learned that trump's pick for defense secretary, pete hegseth, who we already told you would be the least experience presentable that roe in our nation's history paid an woman an undisclosed amount of money after she accused him of assault, according to hegseth's own lawyer. his lawyer says hegseth maintains his innocence and that the encounter was consensual. that isn't even the biggest i problem facing one of trump's cabinet p

elon musk is about to twitterize the u.s.ernment it is new official role as the head of the department of government efficiency, and unofficial trump group test with identifying $2 trillion in spending cuts. we can debate whether $2 trillion is ever a reality. we can kind of sense what is coming from what happened to twitter. >> we have been here before. two years ago we were watching him basically go into another institution, in this case twitter, and got the company. we are seeing a lot of the same strategies come forward in this sort of first couple weeks of the department of government efficiency. he said he will eliminate work from home. he will have dramatic cost cuts on headcount for people. we know he is going to do things at a million miles per hour. that is what elon musk does with everything. the point of this column this morning was from -- was termite people that when he did that at twitter he did succeed in the sense that twitter still operates on a much smaller budget that he did before, but he broke a lot of t

. >> how's twitter doing? since he bought it? >> yeah. so this kind of gets really interesting, right? so let's take a look. u.s. adults who use and these are of course, are some famous or some might say infamous social media clients. look at this facebook instagram, tiktok, twitter x is going in the wrong direction. so u.s. adults who use twitter x before musk bought it, it was 27%. look at where it's now. it's 21%. it's again going in the wrong direction. and it's very different from the potential other clients. you know, tiktok's up a little bit, instagram's up a little bit, facebook's down. but just a point well within the margin of error. twitter x is unique in that it is actually losing adults who say they are using this particular social media client. >> mr. berman but how is he doing? how is he really doing? yeah, how is he really doing? >> so if you looked at that opening slide, what did it say? it seems like elon musk is losing, but he's actually winning. so the reason one of the big reasons he bough

and then, musk bought twitter, and he bought twitter primming to take down the censorship system at twitterwhich he did, that doesn't mean he hasn't engaged in controversial acts since then and i certainly would support that, but when he released the twitter files, i testified almost immediately after that. there's no evidence of coordination, turned on a dime and said, well, of course, we're sensor-- censoring, we have to censor because these are dangerous, and didn't seem to accept that we're allowed to censor because it's a crowded theater and people are crying fire. congressman, i don't know if it occurs to you the lines you're citing is coming out of the shank opinion and used to look at the draft, and citing a line, and that's the case, holmes moved away from that and the supreme court moved away from shank. is that the standard, what's going to guide us into this future with this new technology and he immediately cut me off, you know, professor, you don't need a law lecture. you think you do. i think you do because you're the same voice, these are the same voices we've heard since th

it was actually created by jack dorsey, who was one of the co-founders of twitter. and so this is a platform where the biggest difference is that it's decentralized. and basically what that means is that users can host their data on other servers. beyond blue sky. you don't have to. it's super technical. don't worry about it. you can just make an account, hop on and essentially post like you would on on twitter. this is it was founded in 2019, but it used to be invitation only up until february of this year, which is why so many people have been joining because it's a lot easier. you don't have to get, you know, the invite code from somebody who's already on the platform. >> right? okay. so have you played around? i actually started following you just in the past half hour, and i noticed you don't have a post yet, doesn't it take all of us contributing to, you know, it takes a while to build up a community right where you actually have the conversations. otherwise just a place where everybody has handles, but nobody's engaging. >> that's exactly right. so you've you

since it was even called twitter. yeah, this is the end of twitter.one was like, this thing is going to last longer than twitter and they'd post like, whatever, but it's like a cat. yeah. you keep thinking it's going to die, but it keeps living. yeah. and i also just feel like because if you remember before elon musk, it was a lot of these people who are saying it's over had the most engagement and, you know, it was skewed more towards them. so of course they feel like they're not in that position anymore. so they're like, oh yeah, this is over, whatever. but because it's not working for them specifically as much, i went over to blue sky. it's so strange. basically, it's a place for people who don't want to face the election. so there's like mark cuban, george conway, pictures of sea animals. yes. yeah. blue x is fine. yeah. it's fine. i think when your side hustle is flying, rocket ships, i think your other business is doing fine. okay. i think i've also established on gutfeld that we need not to go to britain for good ideas. yeah, i've said this ove

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that's what twitter's promise was.ou can get information. >> as far as information goes, twitter always has been a very, very rough place, right. that said, you get your news feed right -- willie, and i have talked about this, mika talked about this -- >> i need mine fix blood. >> -- mine fixed. >> i could go in there and in ten minutes i knew what was going on and then i would go to the times and read all the other stuff. >> yes. >> it was -- it was pretty remarkable even though it's always been -- people are like oh, it's an ugly place. it's always been. >> variously miserable, and i loved it, of course, because i watched sports with the world. it was live. >> exactly. >> a place to talk about the games i cover. this is an elon story to me. not a story as much as it is framed as liberals don't want to talk to conservatives, there is some of that on bluesky certainly and the exodus, but it's because elon musk has put his thumb on the scale of curating what we're all seeing and to the point of clicking on links, someth

this company started back in 2019 as a test within twitter led by twitter's cofounder jack dorsey buthas recently surged in popularity particularly since the election. it has a user base at least 22 million and growing so difference between when it was a test and now after the election is users are going on and feel they can will and customize their own feeds, therefore avoiding the algorithm that pushes them content. many see this as more democratic if you will them content cure ration you are seeing on elon musk's x which is the old twitter, and mark zuckerberg has threads but a lot of people say that's not cool so folks looking for a social media are flocking to blue sky if they don't like x or threads. ashley: interesting. thank you very much. still had, trump choosing stanford professor and physician j batis about chairia who was censored during the pandemic, he will be the nih director. >> the nih invested in very dangerous gain of function research that might have caused the pandemic and they have not come clean, the next ice director is going to need to admit that the agency,

but twitter removed his cloak.tique then vanished and you find the real dead zone is the space between his ears. the dope keeps writing it if you put shush and front of it. [applause] so as these sad losers leave the most vital playing field in the world of speech, we can only wish them luck as the cleansing effects of a vast and free highway of information turn them into roadkill. >> announcer: ! [cheering and applause] >> greg: charli, we have seen this before. how soon before they return? i'm leaving! i'm leaving for good! and then they come back. >> there is so many celebrities who said they would leave the company -- country of trouble selected and they're still here. >> greg: except for eva left. >> to go to a sprawling mansion in mexico? and she has one in spain so we don't really feel bad for her. in fact, she said that she had stopped really seeing the u.s. and l.a. as her hometown as her place of inhabitants during covid because of all of the homelessness and taxes which was because of her own party. but