"When I deleted my Twitter account in September last year, provoked not by Elon Musk’s imminent takeover but by the suffocating quantity of royal coverage gushing from every media source, I was left feeling bereft, as any addict is when their drug is taken away."
I like the LRB piece you linked. The author understands what any loser who uses twitter intuitively feels - it is nothing more than an empty, addictive drug.
"Twitter gives users thirty days to change their minds after deleting their accounts, to prevent impulsive exits (i.e. to re-ensnare recovering addicts). I was still inside my thirty days. Stopping myself rejoining in order to react to this exceptional political event took considerable self-restraint."
"When I deleted my Twitter account in September last year, provoked not by Elon Musk’s imminent takeover but by the suffocating quantity of royal coverage gushing from every media source, I was left feeling bereft, as any addict is when their drug is taken away."
I like the LRB piece you linked. The author understands what any loser who uses twitter intuitively feels - it is nothing more than an empty, addictive drug.
"Twitter gives users thirty days to change their minds after deleting their accounts, to prevent impulsive exits (i.e. to re-ensnare recovering addicts). I was still inside my thirty days. Stopping myself rejoining in order to react to this exceptional political event took considerable self-restraint."
[I've edited this. I don't like sounding that mean.]
Chuck Klosterman's takes on American culture leave me unimpressed.