In recent months, Twitter has become a dumpster fire wrapped in a train wreck—and it's getting worse. On Tuesday, NPR reported that the site's new owner, Elon Musk, emailed to warn that he was going to give its account to someone else in an apparent act of retaliation because the media service had called Twitter unreliable and stopped tweeting. This came shortly after Twitter's decision to strip verification marks from official accounts resulted in a flood of impostors impersonating everyone from the LAPD to New York's transit authority.
All of this chaos combined with technical features breaking on a regular basis suggest that Twitter's end may be nigh. Users have had enough, and major advertisers, understandably, don't want to go near Musk's version of the service with a 10-foot pole. Twitter is not going to go away tomorrow or next week, but it's in an ominous downward spiral that will only get worse.
