The editors of the website
NPlusOnemag.com have come up with a critique of
Twitter that they described as having “held true utility for the contemporary reader” for 15 years, a site that they said had “offered brisk access to the news and the figures responsible for it and to the wide-ranging commentary and often terrible opinions of interesting people, and to surprising encounters with previously unencountered knowledge.” The platform had an efficient information delivery system that made it unique among its social media rivals, the
NPlusOnemag.com editors said, but now they contend that its new CEO’s piece-by-piece algorithmic tweaks and efforts to monetize everything about the site have “undermined the features that made Twitter useful and occasionally enjoyable for even the nonruling class.”
IMAGE CREDIT: SKETCH-BY-PAUL-CHAN, COURTESY OF THE ARTIST AND GREENE NAFTALI, NEW YORKThis critique of
Twitter by the
NPlusOnemag.com editors forms part of their still ongoing and wide-ranging assessment of the evolving online reading environment that has seen the rise of such motley names as
Semafor,
Air Mail,
Punchbowl News, and
Puck—many of which have erected the modern paywall that the critique says now “has attained its final, fortress-defending form…after a long and glorious spell of underpolicing.”
Read in full “The New Reading Environment—After Twitter,” Issue 45 (May 4, 2023) in the online NPlusOneMag.com now!
