Joy Reid said she no longer uses Twitter because she doesn’t “want to have to read through Nazi crap to see what’s in the news,” and because of that, the MSNBC host suggested that the social media platform is doomed to fail.
Reid praised Meta’s Twitter clone Instagram Threads, saying that is where “normal people” have gone on social media. She also questioned whether there were any “guardrails” in place to keep conservatives from coming to “infect” Threads.
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“I stopped using Twitter quite a long time ago,” Reid explained on her show The ReidOut, saying she didn’t want to give Twitter CEO Elon Musk any content. “But every so often I would check it as an aggregator, just to see if there is any news in there in between the Nazi tweets. After a while, I stopped doing that because it’s like, I don’t want to have to read through Nazi crap just to see what’s in the news.”
“Threads, since that has launched, to me, there’s no reason to check Twitter anymore. All of the major, you know, MaddowBlog’s on there, the Washington Post is on there — all the stuff I would normally read, I can aggregate it on Threads. Twitter now is useless to me. If people like me are leaving, I don’t know how Twitter survives.”
NBC News reporter Ben Collins joined Reid and suggested Twitter will survive “in the sense that the Nazis still really like it.” He noted that social media platforms may become silos for particular political leanings.
“This is the reality we’re in right now. Everyone is sort of planting their flag all throughout the internet because we’re in a new era. This is like the great reset social media,” Collins said. “The problem is now, of course, this is sort of the issue we have going forward: How do we determine which one of these is important politically? How do we determine which user base has power and is driving people to the polls?”
Reid then suggested that right-wing Twitter users might become “bored talking to each other.”
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“They want to be where the liberals are because they want to own the libs, and they can only do that in places where normal people are,” Reid said. “And I wonder if they start trying to infect and impact Threads the same way, and whether there are enough guardrails to keep them from coming over there.”
“That’s one thing I’ve noticed; they don’t like talking to each other,” she added. “They want to talk to normal people. And they can only do that if they break out of their closed platforms and get on to ones where normal people are.”
