You may (or may not) have noticed that since yesterday we here at Hot Air have been using a lot fewer Xweets (Tweets, X-files?) from Elon Musk’s X (formerly Twitter).
It’s not because we don’t want to. For good or ill, we rely on X to feed our thirst for news in the world, and especially to get the raw data that is impossible to get if you rely on Pravda to fill in the blanks.
X gives you video you will never see anywhere else, clips of news programs, immediate access to news stories and commentary, and the opinions of everybody, prestigious and obscure. It is an invaluable resource and pretty much the only unfiltered source of “news” in the world. We rely on it, and Twitchy, our sister site, relies on it even more.
For most of yesterday, X was down entirely or so slow that it was essentially useless, silencing hundreds of millions of voices and…
