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# The Week in Tweets
- URL: https://onemanandhisblog.com/2022/10/the-week-on-tweets/
- Published: 2022-10-30T12:18:00.000Z
- Updated: 2022-10-31T11:24:44.000Z
- Description: A landmark week in a number of ways, caught in a handful of Tweets…
- Author: Adam Tinworth
- Tags: X (Twitter), Journalism, elon musk, the spectator, MailOnline, The Times, Politics

Well, when those of us who work in the media look back on this week, I suepct Musk's acquistion of Twitter will be the defining event. I've already written about it twice this week, but certainly everything felt different from Friday morning onwards:

> \*sniff\*   
>  
> Is it me, or is there a strange new musk around Twitter this morning?
> 
> — Adam Tinworth (@adders) [October 28, 2022](https://twitter.com/adders/status/1585860217279238144?ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw&ref=onemanandhisblog.com)

Yes, Twitter had become the main characters of Twitter, and while the spicy takes, [especially this one from *The Verge*](https://www.theverge.com/2022/10/28/23428132/elon-musk-twitter-acquisition-problems-speech-moderation?ref=onemanandhisblog.com) which has “confirmation bias” written all over it spread far and wide, some insightful comments didn't get quite the exposure: 

> Musk and Twitter: Contracts do matter it seems. All those commentators adamantly saying he’ll get out of the deal or a big discount look a bit naive today.
> 
> — Antony Slumbers (@antonyslumbers) [October 28, 2022](https://twitter.com/antonyslumbers/status/1585887613835444227?ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw&ref=onemanandhisblog.com)

And people watching the Twitter website closely saw some interesting changes:

> Twitter has removed “Our Company” page, which used to list Twitter’s leadership team[https://t.co/lMXV7DX2xy](https://t.co/lMXV7DX2xy?ref=onemanandhisblog.com) [pic.twitter.com/tQgFSriwjq](https://t.co/tQgFSriwjq?ref=onemanandhisblog.com)
> 
> — Jane Manchun Wong (@wongmjane) [October 28, 2022](https://twitter.com/wongmjane/status/1586068250424578048?ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw&ref=onemanandhisblog.com)

Our profession has not covered itself in glory, either, with some basic mistakes in both fact-checking and also terminology: 

> A reminder comrades: employment is terminated rather than people. [https://t.co/WhQZGlheRX](https://t.co/WhQZGlheRX?ref=onemanandhisblog.com)
> 
> — Paul Wiggins 🍺 (@paulwiggins) [October 28, 2022](https://twitter.com/paulwiggins/status/1585861449976803330?ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw&ref=onemanandhisblog.com)

And this was interesting (and somewhat under-reported): a lot of the impetus for the uptick in racist language on Twitter came from 4chan, a site well able to test the limits of the acceptable *en masse*:

> Evidence suggests that bad actors are trying to test the limits on [@Twitter](https://twitter.com/Twitter?ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw&ref=onemanandhisblog.com). Several posts on 4chan encourage users to amplify derogatory slurs.   
>  
> For example, over the last 12 hours, the use of the n-word has increased nearly 500% from the previous average. [pic.twitter.com/mEqziaWuMF](https://t.co/mEqziaWuMF?ref=onemanandhisblog.com)
> 
> — Network Contagion Research Institute (@ncri\_io) [October 28, 2022](https://twitter.com/ncri%5Fio/status/1586007698910646272?ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw&ref=onemanandhisblog.com)

## Beyond Twitter

Meanwhile, the ascension of Rishi Sunak poses a problem for both *The Times* and *The Spectator*, because they both publish James Forsyth. He's the political editor of the *Speccie* — and Sunak's best mate.

> I try to be fair, but I do just think it is professionally dubious to write a glowing column about the PM in the Comment pages of the Times without mentioning he’s your best friend and was best man at your wedding. [pic.twitter.com/iiq7U3Z7GZ](https://t.co/iiq7U3Z7GZ?ref=onemanandhisblog.com)
> 
> — Jamie Susskind (@jamiesusskind) [October 27, 2022](https://twitter.com/jamiesusskind/status/1585740150713229312?ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw&ref=onemanandhisblog.com)

Forsyth has taken to vaguely mentioning the relationship in podcasts, but both titles need to be much more up-front about this on the web, too. 

And guess which UK site breached the Editors' Code of Practice way more than any other?

> Mail Online breached the Editors’ Code of Practice more times than any other newsbrand in 2021, according to IPSO’s annual report [https://t.co/WmnRgRS16R](https://t.co/WmnRgRS16R?ref=onemanandhisblog.com) [pic.twitter.com/wHcUW5vvcR](https://t.co/wHcUW5vvcR?ref=onemanandhisblog.com)
> 
> — Press Gazette (@pressgazette) [October 23, 2022](https://twitter.com/pressgazette/status/1584152660470599681?ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw&ref=onemanandhisblog.com)