Why 2024 feels like the first post-Twitter presidential campaign

Get the Full StoryA dozen years after the first Twitter-era election, X may not be the defining social platform of the Harris-Trump race no matter what Elon Musk does to make it so.

Even those who scoff at the Trump campaign s claim that Monday night s X Spaces conversation between Donald Trump and Elon Musk was the interview of the century may buy into my colleague Joe Berkowitz s conclusion that the event was a coup for Musk and X. Exactly how many people were paying attention seems to be a mystery. Whatever that number, it wasn t small, and as I write this newsletter on Tuesday, articles about the broadcast are still on the homepages of major news outlets.

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