In his 2013 TV special, How Videogames Changed the World, writer and broadcaster Charlie Brooker put Twitter at the top of his list of world-changing games. He argued that Twitter is more than just a social app – the thrill of getting retweets and followers, Brooker said, creates an addictive loop much like a video game. If you agree with the argument, then it certainly feels, at the time of writing, as though Twitter’s nearing some sort of endgame, much like an MMO in its last months before shutdown.
As Twitter flounders under its new multi-billionaire management, another unfeasibly wealthy person, Mark Zuckerberg, is having issues of his own. Because, whether he admits it or not, Zuckerberg has gone from social media pioneer to game developer with his much-vaunted Metaverse.…
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