Today, the king of micro-blogging apps takes on the bastion of long reads.
Lets make one thing clear, our first nominee is Twitter, not X.
So if youre hesitant to give a thumbs up Elon Musks app, your conscience can be clear.
Graphic: Gizmodo
Likewise, if you want to lick Elons boots with your vote, youre out of luck.
Were talking about the bird app here.
Some of thestrangest characterson the internet dedicated their time to posting simply for the love of the game.
Graphic: Google
And the Arab Spring briefly convinced many that Twitter was capable of toppling despotic governments.
It gave users 140 characters to express themselves, and thats about it.
Experiments with live video and audio floundered, but the simple tweet remained powerful.
Graphic: Vicky Leta
But it wasnt all great.
Theres certainly a very good argument to be made that Twitter was always a very bad app.
People have made that argument every day since Elons takeover.
Taking on Twitter we have Read It Later, which is better known as Pocket.
web app tabs were piling up as that 7,000-word New Yorker feature waited to be read.
They got it right the first time.
But how we consume content has transformed considerably.
So, reader, whatll it be?
Voting has closed, and Twitter will advance to take on Venmo in its next round!
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