Character Limit
by Kate Conger, Ryan Mac · first published 2024
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To be fair (and I'm a big fan of Drew), it seems unlikely that Jack could have prevented the sale of Twitter to Musk. I'm part-way through the book “Character Limit: How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter” by Kate Conger and Ryan Mac, and so far I can recommend it. It's not necessarily perfect writing (they do _not_ think highly of Jack, nor really any other tech-bros),…
on “No Billionares at FOSDEM” ↗…facts or stories. An "unauthorized" biography is not necessarily suspect but it is kind of a subgenre. Consider the difference between Isaacson's Musk biography and the work done by Kate and Ryan for Character Limit (https://www.amazon.com/Character-Limit-Elon-Destroyed-Twitte...) - not exactly a biography but the legwork is fundamentally different, reportorial or even adversarial where the narrative gets challenged,…
on “Someone Used AI to Write an Unauthorized Biography of Me” ↗Character Limit by Kate Conger and Ryan Mac
on “Ask HN: What is the best thing you read in 2024?” ↗I also feel like nobody uses Twitter anymore, after Musk bought it. Now it's just random scammers and "tech bros". It doesn't surprise me at all, after reading "Character Limit: How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter" by Kate Conger and Ryan Mac. Interesting behind the scenes of what happened to Twitter.
on “Threads edges out X in daily mobile users, new data shows” ↗