Breaking the Bird on HBO Max isn’t just about Elon.
It’s about the messy, world-shaking, and weirdly unprofitable history of Twitter.

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There’s a moment in the Twitter documentary #BreakingTheBird (on Max) where cofounders Ev and Biz talk about driving from SF to Palo Alto to meet with Mark Zuckerberg and the b-roll is…footage of the Golden Gate Bridge. That’s the wrong direction, folks!

Just watched #BreakingTheBird, the Twitter origin story. Wow. Just wow. and not in a good way

Maybe it’s easy to dunk on the founders of Twitter because they’re a bunch of backstabbing self-absorbed fumblers #BreakingtheBird

And the ISIS, Islamic State episode

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Had no idea the Twitter ‘Fail Whale’ was a thing…
You always something new everyday.

#twitter #hbomax #breakingthebird #failwhale

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Feels very meta to watch the new @hbomax.bsky.social docu series ‘Twitter: Breaking the Bird’ while posting on @bsky.app

#twitter #breakingthebird #hbomax #docuseries

Everyone at Twitter failed so badly because you let yourself be intimidated and bullied by a psychopath. And Jack was comfortably checked out. What took you so long...? #BreakingTheBird

Breaking the Bird shows how Twitter turned into a social media skip fire The feature-length documentary, released on BBC Two and iPlayer, digs into the story of a concerning modern phenomenon

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"Twitter will be remembered for the long tail of knock-on effects . . . of people trying to advance right wing authoritarianism, and an explicitly anti-democratic agenda - both domestically and right across the world."
Jack handed it to Musk on a plate.
#BreakingTheBird on BBC2

Fascinating and depressing documentary on @BBCTwo - #Twitter #BreakingtheBird

🐦 has caused societal breakdown & been responsible for diabolical events and there was not a single mention of #DigitalSovereignty or #DataSovereignty

From #StayWoke Twitter to toxic cesspit X - oh, how times have changed 🤦🏾‍♀️
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Watching #BreakingTheBird it’s striking that the twitter founders had no vision, no idea where they were going, and no idea how to get there. It was an enormous accident that succeeded ONLY because of the network effect. #BreakingTheBird

Why Musk Turned the ‘Global Mind’ into a Nest of Psychosocial Disease The tumour of the far-right, the brain virus of conspiracy theories and head traumas caused by Musk’s erratic driving could destroy Twitter

Teilhard's 'global mind' was revealed to be diseased even at the point when Jack Dorsey and co were 'running' Twitter. But Elon Musk deliberately spread the far-right cancer

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In 2007, a Sunday Times article said Twitter was the next big thing.

I said it was BS & would never take off: "what kind of idiot is interested in what someone had for dinner or when they went to the loo?"

Six years later I started tweeting, only occasionally about my dinner.

#BreakingTheBird

Watching #BreakingTheBird
Makes me feel sad and nostalgic. I met so many great people on Twitter and the professional networking was amazing! Really loved that aspect, and the fun of tweet along chats. Such a shame it all went bad. Seeing the bad signs on Threads now, and sometimes on here too 🤔☹️

Watching #BreakingTheBird on BBC2. Nostalgic as hell...before it became actual hell.

I got the second to last word in on the #BreakingTheBird documentary.

You can’t have universal free speech because the speech of some silences the speech of others. So there is no perfect solution.

I found myself really enjoying this TV special. Going from the time period of Oprah talking on her show about Twitter to Obama being the first president to tweet, to where it is now is just SO unreal.
A long and wild timeline of good and obviously bad.
#BreakingTheBird

#CNN’s 'Twitter: Breaking the Bird' is WILD. From blue checks to mass layoffs—Twitter’s chaos under Musk is a case study in corporate turbulence. 🐦💥 #BreakingTheBird

#CNN’s 'Twitter: Breaking the Bird' is WILD. From blue checks to mass layoffs—Twitter’s chaos under Musk is a case study in corporate turbulence. 🐦💥 #BreakingTheBird

#breakingthebird Series finale tonight on CNN at 10pm EST - ‘Twitter crashes into history ‘ via the Trump Bump, #oneteam, #onevirus, Jan 6th , salt juice & Elon and more

youtu.be/RmzhRXY9zmE

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I'm watching @cnn.com #breakingthebird. As much as I hate how it got abused and devolved into #BLECH X, I am excited about #bluesky. I hope it brings back the positive impact of authentic connection. To that end, my promise is to bring my authentic self, not just my marketing vanilla nice girl.

Wow! I just found my old work account on Twitter. I joined in 2007. Almost 20 years ago.

No wonder I'm invested. Our tower of Babbel was brought down.

I wrote a lot about the #ArabSpring back then, and connected it to Elon's Saudi-backed catch and kill later.

#BreakingTheBird

*Saudi/Israeli

bout to start #BreakingTheBird

Nostalgia overload watching #breakingthebird.

Often omitted from early social web stories is how folks were driven by content/art/society etc. Hlad it’s included in arc of this story.

Ep2 of Twitter Breaking the Bird is out tonight .
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Wrong title CNN it should be "Plucking the Bird"
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Un documentaire sur l'histoire de Twitter ! Hâte de voir ce qui va se dire sur le bordel qui a commencé en octobre 2022... #BreakingTheBird #CNN