Jeff Bezos’ highly personal blog post last night was a bombshell in a great many ways: serving a middle finger to blackmailing bullies, accusing one of America’s biggest tabloids of extortion, and escalating his conflict with the country’s president. But what stood out to me, precisely by virtue of it not being noticed or widely recognized, was the role that Twitter played in that explosive news moment. If Bezos dropped a bomb, it was Twitter that sparked and catalyzed the explosion.
Anyone looking at Twitter as a typical social media platform will not be impressed by it. The company just reported 126 million daily active users, and although its financials have looked solid, it lost 10 percent of its stock value due to projections of…
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