Twitter Made a Small Change and It's a Very Bad Sign That It's Becoming More Like Facebook

I think it’s fair to say that Twitter has its problems. Right now, however, I imagine the company is grateful Facebook continues to garner most of the criticism. That doesn’t mean people have forgotten the way Twitter has been used to amplify offensive content, but it hasn’t been the focus of regulators and lawmakers the way Facebook has.Some of that has to do with the fact that Twitter is far smaller than Facebook and the rest of its tech peers. For comparison, Facebook has almost 3 billion regular users and is worth $900 billion. It generated over $29 billion in revenue in the past quarter, $9 billion of which was profit. Twitter, on the other hand, has around 200 million users and is worth around $40 billion. It earned a little more than $1.2 billion and generated $23 million in profit, if you don’t count the $800 million it paid to settle a shareholder lawsuit.On scale alone, it makes sense that Twitter has attracted far less scrutiny. For the most part, it has avoided many of the privacy and content moderation problems that led Facebook to last week change its name to Meta. Now, however, Twitter is following in Facebook’s footsteps in a…
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