: Writer’s Corner: How long will I continue to be on Elon’s Twitter? #IndiaNEWS #Writer's Corner Social Samosa writer, Sneha Medda, shares her experience of using Twitter after Elon Musk took over

Writer’s Corner: How long will I continue to be on Elon’s Twitter? #IndiaNEWS #Writer 's Corner
Social Samosa writer, Sneha Medda, shares her experience of using Twitter after Elon Musk took over giving us a first-hand view through the Gen-Z lens.

It was early 2020, the world was shutting down and I had found a new hobby. This hobby was not kitting or whipping up coffee but it was this birdie called Twitter. A safe place for the future of tomorrow, the Gen-Z, to rant about every minute of inconvenience in their life, from their leaking ceilings to their problematic families, the ‘twelebs’ had found a platform where they were the main characters.

Do you feel tumhaare life ka purpose is over after binge watching a show or are you abnormal?— sneha (@snehahahahha) June 9, 2020

Twitter, for my generation, has been somewhat more important than Instagram and Facebook; here we were able to mindlessly put out our thoughts. This gave birth to the concept of sh*tposting and Gen-Zs perception towards Twitter started to shape up.

Though there’s no harm done in the Gen-Z way of Tweeting, with time and some character development, these twelebs have evolved from just crying over their first-world problems to actually turning heads and engaging in conversations that matter. And just like any other topic, these groundbreaking conversations are also happening via memes and pop-culture references.

The world now has 8 billion people, still cant bag a single human — sneha (@snehahahahha) November 16, 2022

Between a bunch of boycotts and our world population hitting the 8th billion mark, Elon Musk buying out Twitter with his Tesla sales was equally discussed (with memes, obviously) by the Gen-Zers.

We have all been witnessing Musk acting like the toxic s/o (significant other) in our lives with announcing the sudden firing of approximately 7500 employees in a blink of an eye. Like a true red flag character, as soon as he realised how badly he needed them, he was quick on hiring them back, like everything was sunshine and rainbows.

How can we forget when Musk tried to monetize the blue tick and as soon as trolls started creating fake accounts with the verified tick of big shots like a pharma company, Elon pulled an Uno Reverse Card on this plan as well. Anyway, in recent developments, the platform now has like a bajillion different tags that will state if your account is a parody account or not.

When all this chaos and drama was unfolding, like the true comedians that this generation is, Twitter had found its newest and most loved meme. Tweeting and clowning Musk and his decision had become the talk of the town.

As an outsider watching from the sidelines, sipping on tea and consuming the ‘piping hot tea’ on the Twitter-verse was indeed a spectacular experience.