But judging by the amount of coverage it's been getting in the press --and not just the tech press. I'm talking all the main news channels too-- I'm beginning to feel like everyone else but me seems to consider this the most newsworthy event of the year. Right up there with the Russian ivasion of Ukraine.

Only a couple of days ago, I heard an interview on a national UK radio news station with a soon-to-be-ex Twitter employee which seriously ran for about 20 or 30 minutes. And this was just some guy who worked there, speculating about the company's future. Not a top executive or anyone with any real info.

And, as for the tech press. Well, it's almost becoming a challenge to find a story which isn't about Elon-bloody-Musk and Twitter!

Search on HN for "musk twitter"[0] and I counted 15 pages of submissions to go back 10 days to when the takeover was confirmed. At 20 results per page, that's 300 submissions to HN alone, just in the 10 days since Musk took over.

In a similar period, the BBC has had 18 news stories on the subject [1]

And I counted no less than 60 stories on the subject in the Guardian, during the same time frame [2]

I'm assuming the story is pretty much the same in other parts of the world too.

Am I missing something here? I don't see the fascination with social media myself. But I know a lot of people use Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok or whatever and get enjoyment from them.

But are these vacuuous time-sinks so newsworthy that the change of ownership at one of them is attracting this kind of blanket news coverage. Can the press really find nothing more important happening in the world?

[0] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&query=musk%20twitter&sort=byDate&type=story

[1] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/topics/cmj34zmwx51t/twitter

[2] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/twitter