Twitter's Downfall

Twitter’s demise might bring us a reimagined social media future. Here’s why that might be good and bad.

Social media’s metamorphosis from the juvenile musings of college students to global information force came without limits or expectations, which may cause its ultimate downfall.

Twitter, now the world’s 17th most popular social media platform, exemplifies the limits of power of a once-revered free speech platform, complete with narcissist main characters, corruption, hidden agendas, and the makings of a True Crime drama or spy novel.

What Twitter did should not be forgiven, but there are lessons to be learned from its demise.

The Twitter Whistleblower

Whistleblower Peiter Zatko, Twitter’s former security chief, detailed how foreign operatives infiltrated Twitter security, exploiting security and data structure flaws to gather intelligence on Americans, silence dissident voices, and promote propaganda earlier this year in both Congressional testimony and his whistleblower filing.

Zatko exposed that spies and foreign operatives worked as subcontractors to Twitter security, and in at least o…