He is Twitter. Twitter is him.
“Twitter is still a company, sure, with employees and creditors and advertisers, millions of users, producing a breathtaking range of externalities,” explains John Herrman at New York Magazine. “But, also, it’s just a guy.“
Hermann continues:
Twitter, like all social networks, has inspired all sorts of theories about how it really works and why. It’s a public-feeling venue run as a commercial firm; as a company, it routinely borrowed civic and legal language to legitimize what were, when you really get down to it, a bunch of rules and structures that the company could change if it really wanted to, and that it often did.
It was in public-company Twitter’s interest to give the impression that no one person was really in charge, and to insist that this commercially run, advertising-driven social network — variously referred to as a “town square” or a “digital commons” — was, in fact, a collection of carefully considered systems and policies, which, through slow deliberation, could be tweaked or repaired to produce different results.
Nah! Now Twitter is just a guy. This guy. 🔽🔽🔽
So you don’t have to click through:
I’m trying to imagine a support group for narcissists. There are support groups for victims of narcissists. But why would a narcissist even seek help? Wouldn’t each member of such a group insist it be about himself? How would that work?
We are seeing it now in real time.