Twitter: Breaking the Bird
Twitter: Breaking the Bird
The inside story of the tech entrepreneurs who created the social media app Twitter. At first the site grew on the back of celebrities who realised it offered them a direct way to communicate with fans. After going global, it seemed to be fulfilling the founders' dream of a digital utopia where all voices would be heard. But as hate speech and misinformation flooded the platform, the founders faced growing problems to control it - and the sale to Elon Musk in 2022 represented the end of their dream
Twitter: Breaking the Bird airs on BBC Two Wales HD at 9:00 PM, Monday 31 March. (Subtitles, new, audio description.)
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General
Nina Sosanya
Narrator
Ricardo Pollack
Executive Producer
James Goldston
Executive Producer