October: It begins

Elon Musk walked into Twitter headquarters holding a disembodied porcelain sink so he could say he “let that sink in,” laugh sheepishly in a silent, cavernous room, and make God cry. He decided to buy Twitter after that aforementioned legal battle started looking grim for him, and stepped into his CEO shoes the last week of October. That same week, gaming news Twitter @Nibellion shut down.

“Nibel didn’t break stories but rather had an almost preternatural ability to tweet about them before anyone else,” Kotaku editor John Walker wrote on October 31. But in light of a failed attempt to monetize those tweets with Patreon and Musk’s reign looming, Nibel decided to call it quits.

“I do not trust Musk and his seemingly infinite immaturity,” he said in a Patreon post. “I do not think Twitter will fall apart instantly but that it could die a slow death. Why waste more time?” @Nibellion currently exists as a private shell of its former self.

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