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38 statements across 18 episodes · 9 bullish · 20 bearish · 19 people on the record · first statement Jul 21, 2022 by Jonathan Haidt · said 125 times in 31 episodes since 2021 · across every show →
Mentions by year, the whole family
brought up most by Alex Kantrowitz (90), Simon Balmain (5), Ranjan Roy (4), Jonathan Haidt (4), Wael Ghonim (3), Rick Heitzman (3), Frances Haugen (3), Sharon Goldman (1)
tap a year for its mentions
2026 22 mentions in 9 episodes 2 per episode
- Predicting the SpaceX, OpenAI, and Anthropic IPOs — With Dick Costolo
- AI Backlash Intensifies, Nvidia GTC Preview, Meta’s Embarrassing Delay
- What Happens If AI Fails?, Subprime Data Center Crisis, How Bad Can SpaceX Get?
- Mythos is Back, OpenAI Releases GPT 5.6, Apple’s Price Increases
- Big Technology AI Summit (full): Greg Brockman, Mike Krieger, Aaron Levie & Friends of The Podcast
- Anthropic's Labs Lead On Fable's Capabilities + Building AI-Native Products — With Mike Krieger
- Warning Signs For The AI Boom, Anthropic Passes OpenAI, Robinhood’s AI Trading
- Satya Nadella’s OpenAI Concerns, Google’s Next AI Model, The AI Monet Prank
- 1 more episode that year, every mention in 2026 →
2025 8 mentions in 4 episodes 2 per episode
- Where Are The AI Startups? — With Rick Heitzmann
- Apple’s AI 'Gap Year' at WWDC?, Elon Vs. Trump Goes Nuclear, NYTimes’ OpenAI Attack
- Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei: AI's Potential, OpenAI Rivalry, GenAI Business, Doomerism
- Anthony Scaramucci: Elon Musk’s Trump Exit, Tim Cook’s Tariff Problem
- every mention in 2025, scene by scene →
2024 11 mentions in 5 episodes 2 per episode
- Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff Has Thoughts on AI Agents, Automation, and The Future of Your Job
- Kara Swisher Rates Tech Leaders
- Predicting AI’s Next Advances — With Suhail Doshi
- AI Predictions for 2025: Geopolitics, Agents, and Data Scaling — With Alexandr Wang
- Yubo Wants To Replace Performative Social Media With Real Time Social Discovery
- every mention in 2024, scene by scene →
2023 14 mentions in 3 episodes 5 per episode
2022 66 mentions in 8 episodes 8 per episode
- Elon Musk Laid Me Off At Twitter: Simon Balmain
- Facebook Whistleblower Frances Haugen On Product, Competition, And Transparency
- How Amazon Reinvents with Artificial Intelligence
- Jonathan Haidt: Why Social Media Makes Our Society Stupid
- Ethereum Co-Founder Gavin Wood On What Web3 Is Actually Good For
- Saagar Enjeti and Marshall Kosloff on Midterms, Trump, Economy, and Ukraine
- Is AI Dangerously Overhyped? — With Gary Marcus
- Pt. 2: Google Engineer Says Its AI is SENTIENT (And Responds To Criticism)
- every mention in 2022, scene by scene →
2021 4 mentions in 2 episodes 2 per episode
Everything said about Twitter, oldest first
Jul 21, 2022 negative
Jul 21, 2022 neutral
Sep 13, 2022 bearish
Marcus: LLM-powered misinformation as a service will soon be widespread
“If what you want to do is to put out like 10,000 versions of something on Twitter, something untrue and find one that sticks, then misinformation as a service, which is how they might call it in the tech industry is a pretty damn powerful technique. And if it …”
Sep 29, 2022 negative
Nov 6, 2022 negative
Nov 6, 2022 positive
Nov 6, 2022 neutral
Kosloff: Social media censorship is no longer an animating electoral issue
“Social media censorship is a very, like, 2019 era issue. It's just not, even, like, separate from just, like, Twitter, separate from, oh, there's a reason I trove social has just not blown up. I think we are just in this weird moment where the broad electorate…”
Nov 9, 2022 bullish
Nov 9, 2022 neutral
Balmain: Musk will likely make concessions to appease Twitter advertisers
“It's potentially quite likely that concessions will have to be made by him in order to, you know appease brand advertisers in, in certain ways that some of these people who were very jubilant and joyful about this might have a very quick turn of heart about th…”
Nov 9, 2022 negative
Twitter was never the primary ad destination for most major brands
“Twitter has never been for most big advertisers. Yeah. This is our like number one thing that we're going to put all of our money into. It just hasn't been that. So if there's risk or there's turbulence, there's instability, They'll, they'll, they'll shift it …”
Nov 9, 2022 bearish
Nov 9, 2022 negative
Jack Dorsey was an active participant in Elon Musk's Twitter takeover
“Jack is, is certainly not an innocent bystander in, in this turn of events. He's, you know, a very active participant in this turn of events even having not been at the company for, you know, a year and not been on the board since I think May is when he steppe…”
Nov 9, 2022 negative
Mass layoffs will degrade Twitter's manual, non-AI content moderation, Balmain warns
“Content moderation is, it's not AI driven, right? It's not machine learning. It's, you know, there's elements of that to it, like anything in tech, but it's a manual job that real people are doing. And if you're laying off people that do that, then stuff's not…”
Nov 9, 2022 negative
Balmain lost laptop, Slack, and Gmail access an hour after layoff email
“Within the email kind of said, yeah, there's good, there's gonna be this huge reduction in, in head count. You will, if you're affected, you'll get an email to your personal email. And if not, you'll get something to your work email. And it was within an hour …”
Nov 9, 2022 negative
Balmain: Musk's firing of Twitter executives made sweeping layoffs clearly inevitable
“When I think the real mood shift came On the day that, you know, the deal was closed and he, you know, showed up at the office and fired all the executives. Right. You know, these are incredible people that, that, you know, most people in the company have had …”
Nov 9, 2022 neutral
Balmain: Twitter will prioritize paid features and creator monetization cuts
“There will be a large focus on products that directly drive revenue to the company in that the user will need to pay to do X or Y. And then the other one will be a high priority attempt at sort of creative programs, influencer programs where users pay other us…”
Nov 9, 2022 negative
Nov 9, 2022 neutral
Nov 9, 2022 negative
Twitter employees learned of internal company moves from reporters on Twitter
“On pretty much on platform, following the news, following, yeah, following, you know, following the resources of deep diving investigators like, you know, Casey Newtons and people like that. Yeah, we're finding out a lot of stuff at the same time everybody els…”
Nov 9, 2022 bearish
Oct 16, 2023 negative
Nov 7, 2023 neutral
Ray Dalio pitched his employee rating software to Elon Musk, Jack Dorsey
“His great dream is that the principles and the dot collector would be adopted by other companies, and he went to other, to some of the most famous men in business. You know, he told people inside Bridgewater. He was talking to Elon Musk about doing this at Tes…”
May 15, 2024 positive
Children interacting with AI chatbots is preferable to using existing social media
“Potentially, but I think it'll honestly be better than what they're currently doing, which is YouTube and TikTok and Twitter, you know, Facebook and so forth. So I would prefer my kids are playing with chatbots than they're playing with what they currently hav…”
Nov 15, 2024 bullish
Nov 15, 2024 bullish
Nov 27, 2024 neutral
Benioff: Salesforce planned to transform Twitter into an interactive application platform
“We were really going to build something that was more of an application development and deployment capability, where you really had this kind of same Twitter feeds, but you'd kind of have hypercards in those frames, not just photos.”
Nov 27, 2024 neutral
Jan 9, 2025 bullish
Broderick predicts Bluesky will reach 100 million users by early 2026
“Blue Sky
Is now north of twenty-five million users, and it's well on its way to, let's, let, let's say that by this time next year, maybe even sooner, Blue Sky is gonna be around a 100,000, Blue Sky will be around a hundred million users, which I looked up th…”
Jan 9, 2025 bearish
Kantrowitz: No single platform will win the post-Twitter social media fragmentation
“With something like a blue sky, you have now have blue sky, you have threads, you have Instagram, you have Twitter, and instead of like one winning out, which there won't be an absolute winner, you're just going to have diluted experiences everywhere”
Feb 26, 2025 negative
Hayes: Musk's Twitter takeover converted political power into financial gains via Trump
“What it did was it created a kind of political power That then created financial rewards on the backside, because once you get Donald Trump elected, all of a sudden everyone wants to be your buddy, and your stock price goes up.”
Jul 2, 2025 negative
Noah Smith: Social media drove polarization by eliminating geographic and ideological segregation
“I think it's primarily social media. I think that social media so, so I think that Americans, America was this very big, diverse country. You had ideological diversity. We had geographic diversity, not just like racial diversity, which is what we typically thi…”
Jul 30, 2025 negative
Amodei: Accelerationists lack moral credibility and have brains full of adrenaline
“Some of these people who on Twitter, you know, cheer for acceleration, I don't think they have a humanistic sense of the benefit of the technology. Their brains just full of adrenaline, and they're like, they want to cheer for something, they want to accelerat…”
Sep 29, 2025 bearish
Kantrowitz: AI content creation apps suffer rapid novelty fatigue after launch
“The demo in the first couple weeks of these AI content creation apps are awesome, and then people just sort of get used to them and bored of them. Like, Studio Ghibli, whatever it was this amazing moment on really on Twitter over a weekend, and then no one doe…”
Oct 8, 2025 positive
Oct 30, 2025 positive
May 27, 2026 negative
May 27, 2026 bullish
May 27, 2026
Costolo: Founders going public must prepare teams for baseless 15-20% stock swings
“My advice to people who are having taken a company public before and are about to do it is you need to prep the team for, hey, we're about to go into a world where the price of the stock can change even though nothing particularly happened today. Like the stoc…”