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Tim’s take
His baseline view is that Twitter is a machine for making people worse off while pretending to give them a voice, a point he traces back to his dad predicting in 2009 that not everyone deserves to be heard 1:01:39, and that shows up later as the masses being occupied with tweeting at each other instead of anything productive 14:41. He calls the discourse fake theater — blue checkmarks still watching a movie that's over 40:51 — and says deleting the app just makes the manufactured beef disappear 15:06, which is also why he quit using his own account and had someone else tweet for him 49:11. He ranks it below being in a gang for positives 38:30.
He does occasionally credit it as useful for sharing content and, compared to other platforms, as relatively free 1:17:18 25:48, but that softens rather than reverses the overall complaint. When Musk bought in he said he supported free speech returning but that the better move was shutting the whole thing down 14:21, and he treated Trump's ban and the later purge/subscription pivot as further evidence the platform is just consolidating control rather than opening anything up 1:25:47 53:03.
Every Reference (64)
"Nintendo's... It has a larger active user base than Snapchat and Twitter right now. A larger active user base than Snapchat and Twitter,"
"attention. People are sharing articles I see on Facebook, on Twitter. And one of the things I love about your website, and I think"
"there's no you're on everything Yeah, well, I you know, I love Twitter. I love Instagram. Yeah, you know before kick now I kind of slowed"
Social Media Strategy: Facebook vs Twitter and Comedians Gone Political — Bully Queen (With Robert Kelly)+35s into the segment"I think that Twitter's coming into an end, thank fucking God. Twitter is gonna come to an end. Of course, because it's fucked. I think Twitter's coming to an end."
Vine Stars, Seinfeld Money, and Things Coming to an End — Bully Queen (With Robert Kelly)+99s into the segment"really kept it alive is Trump. He's the only person, he's keeping Twitter alive right now. He is keeping Twitter alive, that's interesting."
"on America Avenue. Yeah, you could come, and Tim Jay Dillon on Twitter and Instagram, I am banned from Facebook for a few days, but you"
"is per him these are his quotes he did invest in Facebook and Twitter he made some money there and he has Van your media and all of"
"Dillon, D-I-L-O-N, you can get me on Instagram, you can get me on Twitter, you can follow me on Facebook. And I mean, listen folks, I am"
PO Box Fan Mail and Shannon's Dick Dating Show Date — Seeking Arrangements (with Wendi Starling)+25s into the segment"Twitter is the most offensive to me because there's no Nothing is quite like Twitter where literally you're taking someone else's point of view and you're just putting it on your time like you're retweeting It you're just going. Oh, this was that guy's opinion now. It's my opinion, right?"
"act like we're dumber now Yeah, and he and we're in the age of Twitter and we're in the age of Reality TV we're in the age of sound bites"
"them to process payments for people to donate to them. I think Twitter's getting rid of them. So it's kind of interesting, because I"
Colin Ferguson, Rebranding a Nazi, and Payment Platforms Cutting Off the Alt-Right — Nazi Crush+49s into the segment"interesting there is that at the end of the day Companies like Twitter and YouTube have to consider more than simply profit Well, we"
"world and what you you bring out there if you start your day with Twitter you're feeding yourself this toxic diet that you then go manifest,"
Manifestation, Victimhood, and Trump as a Necessary Clown — Alien School (with Jessa Reed)+33s into the segment"mystery to me why anybody is still trying to work out anything on Twitter. I don't know. Okay, so let me get, I got it right here, I apologize."
"Right. And I think we want we're kind of every day I look at Twitter, I go, we're just calling out for a meteor. That's really what"
Twitter Nihilism, Victim Mentality, and the Bette Midler Pile-On — The Coming Collapse+11s into the segment"ago. But in the last 18 months, they've fed a steady diet of Twitter, and they've become experts in all of these issues. We say it"
The Cult of Being Terminally Online and Knowing Everything — America's Election Headquarters+207s into the segment"the things the networks have products YouTube and Facebook and Twitter they were pretty much unregulated as far as ideas. And we've seen"
"this is kind of what Twitter has become in certain corridors especially the people that are angry about everything it's a smash and grab let's capitalize on whatever controversy there is"
Outrage Culture Grifters and the Louis CK/Chris Rock N-Word Clip — My Last Christmas+162s into the segment"You know, if these people on Twitter could, those kids would be in jail and their crime would be, you know, supporting the president, being pro-life."
"As soon as Twitter became popular in like 2010, 2011, my dad's like, this is going to be a big problem for our country because not everybody's supposed to be heard from."
Twitter Ruined Everyone Being Heard, and the PC Boyfriend Who Says 'Partner' — Bay Ridge Boys+18s into the segment"what, where are you at? Are you disgusted by it when you go on Twitter and you look at it, you go, this shit sucks. Do you laugh at it?"
Closing Thoughts: Dark Web Gone Mainstream and Living With Paranoia — I Am The One Who Dox+73s into the segment"I had an argument with a friend We were talking about like the deep platform on Twitter and stuff and I'm like sure there's an ideological element to it But these companies just want to make money Twitter and all these guys they are they want to make money."
"right because the masses are occupied yes here the masses are on Twitter yeah and they're trying to tell each other what to do and who"
The Uncle's Easter Speech: People Too Dumb to Be Governed — Episode 148 - Streak of Evil (with Yannis Pappas)+191s into the segment"and then eventually he ended up getting the platform kicked off Twitter because a lot of his fans he was supposedly organizing his fans"
Milo Yiannopoulos: Rise, Deplatforming, and the Billionaire Puppet Masters — 151 - Toddler Suicide Bomber+277s into the segment"go but you know I for a few years before Twitter I didn't have Twitter and I did okay it's frustrating on a different level though it's"
Gavin on Deplatforming, Trump, and the Proud Boys 'Tutu' Analogy — Episode 153 - Gavin McInnes+41s into the segment"chicks buying jewelry within 8 months that's all its gonna be ok Twitter's god only knows what's going on with Twitter just [ __ ] understand"
"saying like if it's I completely but I don't live my life on Twitter I understand I'm saying you know anything but what I'm saying"
Tech Companies as the New CIA-Adjacent Power — Episode 158 Part 2 - Tim and Ray on the 3 Evils: Epstein, Big Tech, and Long Island+168s into the segment"right that movie's over yeah and we're not watching anymore sure Twitter's watching it right uh uh uh you know the blue checkmarks that"
"it's not really real same thing with Twitter if you just delete Twitter all this [ __ ] all this [ __ ] talk goes away yeah it's hard"
Comedy Camps, Twitter Mobs, and Jealousy Among Comics — #173 - Shane Gillis | The Tim Dillon Show+108s into the segment"Twitter's around right what is it was going away but the Trump energized it and it became political I like I like Twitter a lot because you can put things out people could share them relatively easily"
Social Media, TikTok, and Instagram Killing Likes — #174 - Brendan Schaub | The Tim Dillon Show+100s into the segment"many views on those videos on Instagram as we are on Twitter Twitter seems to be the last bastion of freedom and I know it's a horrible"
Platform Censorship and Why Videos Are Leaving Instagram — #175 - Corporate Steakhouse | The Tim Dillon Show+56s into the segment"we're talking and my dad goes you see this new thing there's Twitter thing he's like do you have one and I was like no I gotta get"
His Dad's Twitter Prophecy and Comfort Corrupts — #180 - History Hyenas | The Tim Dillon Show+22s into the segment"you could be the president of the united states he tried to bomb iran this week supposedly i don't know if that's true or not i think they leaked the thing he has to general he goes by the way can we bomb iran they go just go back to twitter just go back to twitter you could you could control a nuclear arsenal and it's still not going to be as powerful as twitter"
Trump Tweeting 'I Won' and Refusing to Leave — #230 - The Pit | The Tim Dillon Show+59s into the segment"coming back on really quickly uh just to say trump was banned from twitter you guys all know that right now uh twitter released a statement"
Post-Show Update: Trump Banned From Twitter — #234 - Stop Ratting | The Tim Dillon Show+7s into the segment"become more of like a Patreon type platform. Is that what we see Twitter evolving into? Yeah. So, people are going to start paying to subscribe."
Digital Real Estate, Freeing Prisoners in Video Games, and Twitter's Subscription Future — #242 - You're Money Now | The Tim Dillon Show+52s into the segment"centralized right now but bitcoin is a blueprint to decentralize twitter to decentralize facebook so the value doesn't accrue to a few"
Government Crackdowns and Bitcoin as a Decentralizing Force — #255 - Bitcoin Winklevoss Jake Paul | The Tim Dillon Show+117s into the segment"libertarian guy with a beard who actually does believe in free speech. Twitter was the freest of all of these. I think Zuckerberg's a problem."
"it's possible to be at the scale of Facebook, at the scale of Twitter and have the humility to actually have a like like a product that"
Zuckerberg, Jack Dorsey, and the Danger of Wanting to Be Liked — #282 - Lex Fridman | The Tim Dillon Show+291s into the segment"traffic um and there's the mars expedition but now he's buying twitter which i'm for i like the idea that he wants free speech back on"
Elon Musk Buys Twitter Stock and the Open-Source Algorithm Idea — #294 - One Hyde Park | The Tim Dillon Show+56s into the segment"yeah well already on twitter i've been signed in logged into my twitter in about two months now i have my girl benatia tweets everything"
Founding Fathers as Sex Traffickers and the Coming Corporate Internet — Tim's Big Audition with Chris Distefano | The Tim Dillon Show #308+228s into the segment"I could I could show more positives for being in a gang than Twitter and it's not even close right so it but it does feel like everybody's"
Social Media, Debt, and the New Requirements for Existing in Society — Louis CK | The Tim Dillon Show #317+57s into the segment"yeah because once he gets on there nobody really it's musk with Twitter he's like I'll save Twitter it's like you're not gonna save Twitter"
Trump as Twitter's Frankenstein and the End of an Era — Dahmer | The Tim Dillon Show #320 (ft. Yannis Pappas)+82s into the segment"there's nothing wrong you know we love that Elon Musk buying Twitter big mistake probably not you know it's it's one of the most important"
Elon Musk Buying Twitter and Turning It Into a Streaming Competitor — Two Greatest Minds of The Century (Gary Vaynerchuk) | The Tim Dillon Show #324+88s into the segment"right and I'll follow that right so like to me if Facebook and Twitter and snap and Tick Tock all went you know yeah people like Tick"
Is Social Media Engagement Actually Down? — Two Greatest Minds of The Century (Gary Vaynerchuk) | The Tim Dillon Show #324+90s into the segment"and then he did Twitter with Jack and he was instrumental he was the first CEO I believe I've always thought you know what do you think of Jack I Don't Know Jack super well but like he really invented the concept of Twitter right"
What VaynerMedia Actually Does, and the ExpressVPN Ad — Two Greatest Minds of The Century (Gary Vaynerchuk) | The Tim Dillon Show #324+141s into the segment"to act different than a video on YouTube shorts and a video on Twitter it's you know you'll really like this because this is there's"
Hiring Is Just Guessing, and Contextual Creative Per Platform — Two Greatest Minds of The Century (Gary Vaynerchuk) | The Tim Dillon Show #324+161s into the segment"and they couldn't prove any of it but they had to sit down with Twitter all the time and they had to go there's disinformation coming"
Twitter's Trust and Safety Moms and the Russia Panic — Christmas in Nantucket | The Tim Dillon Show #325+58s into the segment"during the election time the FBI would sit down with Twitter and go get ready for it it's coming all of the disinformation is coming it's a hack it's a hack and leak"
The FBI's 'Hack and Leak' Warnings and Hunter's Hog — Christmas in Nantucket | The Tim Dillon Show #325+3s into the segment"you're gonna put it all over the Internet and I think they went to Twitter and they're like by the way can you stop with his hog also there's"
Biden Explains the Hog Situation to Staff — Christmas in Nantucket | The Tim Dillon Show #325+38s into the segment"I mean this is just this is the big news it's Twitter gate folks they're gonna is that a Sig I thought he had a Sig"
Vijaya Gadde and Caitlyn Jenner's Treason Tweet — Christmas in Nantucket | The Tim Dillon Show #325+4s into the segment"Twitter initially limited the distribution of the story citing concerns and it could be the result of a foreign disinformation campaign that hack and league but the social media company quickly backtracked on its response"
Ro Khanna and Vijaya Gadde's Role in Laptop Suppression — Christmas in Nantucket | The Tim Dillon Show #325+169s into the segment"so I'm sure there was some type of rationale uh over there at Twitter but I think it's a lot of smarmy kind of student council president"
Silicon Valley Paternalism and the Hack-and-Leak Rationale — Christmas in Nantucket | The Tim Dillon Show #325+113s into the segment"fault but you know he sold a bunch of Tesla stock to close a Twitter deal um he said recently he's not going to sell any more but Tesla"
Snap Circuits, Renewable Energy Bias, and Tesla's Decline — The Christmas Episode | The Tim Dillon Show #328+82s into the segment"how do you think big tech companies like Twitter make all their money anyway by tracking your searches video history and everything you click on and then selling your personal data"
"we need to detox we should delete Twitter Twitter should be deleted they should delete all this [ __ ] and people need to go back outside"
Nobody in America Is Happy, Just Manic — Patreon Bonus #186 - The Tim Dillon Show+190s into the segment"our footage could see that and know that since then it's got on Twitter and gotten tens of millions of views of us there getting huge"
Alex Jones on January 6th: The Bullhorn Footage and Being Blamed — Springtime in Texas | The Tim Dillon Show #337+165s into the segment"I think roughly the same type of information as Facebook and Twitter that's what they claim they're saying like hey you know that's"
TikTok Data Collection and the Banking Crisis Distraction — Baby's Gotta Go | The Tim Dillon Show #339+80s into the segment"we all agree the website's trash and by the way not because it's Elon not because it's free speech none of that it's just a bad way to communicate Twitter's an awful way to commute it's an awful way to have a meaningful discussion"
Twitter Blue Checks, Fake Kathy Hochul, and COVID Gaslighting — The New Braveheart | The Tim Dillon Show #344+155s into the segment"I was on Twitter the other day I was scrolling on Twitter and I you know I I I"
Introducing the Screaming Gen Z Biden Kids — Bonus Episode: Tim Talks To Gen Z"Jesus were alive today, he would literally be the worst person on Twitter. He'd be like, hey, cab, be out of the lab. And you'd be like,"
Would Jesus Be a Twitter Loser? and the El Paso Priest's Salsa Reputation — Nugget Branding | The Tim Dillon Show #346+52s into the segment"meatball. But no maybe we should maybe we should do the show on Twitter can we? We release it there. I guess we should see how Tucker's"
Begging Linda Yaccarino for a Twitter Show, Italian Impression — Nugget Branding | The Tim Dillon Show #346+39s into the segment"right were silenced for a long time right or at least censored on Twitter for a long for sure it certainly marginalized and it was dangerous"
Why Trump's Podcast Interview Never Trended on YouTube — The Joe Rogan Experience | The Tim Dillon Show #422+125s into the segment"literally that day my Twitter account was I was permanently banned on Twitter. Permanently banned? Yep. A member of Congress. Sitting member"
Larry Ellison, TikTok, and Media Consolidation Fears — Marjorie Taylor Greene Emergency Podcast | The Tim Dillon Show #465+48s into the segment"Friendster or whatever, but I'm talking more about Facebook. Early Twitter. Early Instagram. Facebook was the the beginning of social media"
How Early Social Media (MySpace/Facebook) Felt Different — Perez Hilton, Trump’s Lies, & Data Center Detonation | The Tim Dillon Show #507+100s into the segment