But I do remember blacking out shortly thereafter. Six years later, Baio would headline at the Republican National Convention to endorse Donald Trump. - Irin Carmonĭo you remember where you were when Rihanna sent Ciara a decapitated horse in the form of a tweet? I do not. What could be more low-stakes amusing than a washed-up star fulminating on Twitter and his wife threatening to enlist the attorney general because she believed Baio’s supporters’ comments were being suppressed on a private website? Thrillingly, what we once saw only onscreen was talking back at us, and it was saying something wholly stupid. The complete details are lost to poorly migrated image libraries and deleted tweets, but I remember that Baio, a name-searcher, replied a few times and called me the Real Racist, and the record shows that his wife took to Facebook to call all of us “lesbian shitasses” and declare that her husband had more class in his piss than we did. You see, the real-time meltdown of a marginal cultural figure still felt novel. One afternoon in 2010, while watching Scott Baio, a pretty face of the 1980s, go after Jezebel, the site where I worked at the time, for the crime of republishing his own tweet about his taxes subsidizing lazy people, I too tweeted. With that in mind, New York’s staffers have offered 24 moments when Twitter really was memorable, as a reminder of what Twitter once was and, for better or worse, what it could be. While many a wag has noted Twitter really couldn’t get any worse, the past decade in this country has shown us there’s always more room to fall.
One of the great questions surrounding the Musk acquisition is whether Twitter’s value for shareholders, users, and the media organizations stuck to it like barnacles on a whale will rise or drop. And Twitter’s value is wrapped up in other senses of the word - its usefulness, its ability to provide pleasure and intrigue and news - a notable challenge for a platform synonymous with the word hellsite. A company’s stock price, of course, can change: Only a year ago, Twitter sold at $70 a share after the company announced goals to double its revenue by the end of 2023. What is the value of Twitter? That question has been top of mind since the company agreed this week to be purchased by Elon Musk for $54.20 a share, giving the social network a market value of about $44 billion.
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