Joy Reid wonders how Twitter, with its abundance of “Nazi crap,” can continue to exist when people like her, who consider themselves normal, are abandoning the platform.

Joy Reid: Twitter Doomed to Fail

MSNBC host Joy Reid has declared that she no longer uses Twitter due to the overwhelming presence of “Nazi crap” on the platform. In a recent episode of her show, The ReidOut, she expressed her frustration with having to sift through offensive content just to stay informed.

Reid went on to praise Meta’s Instagram Threads, a Twitter clone, as the new go-to platform for “normal people.” She did, however, raise concerns about the potential infiltration of conservatives into Threads, questioning whether there are enough safeguards in place to prevent this.

“I stopped using Twitter quite a long time ago,” Reid admitted. “But every so often I would check it as an aggregator, just to see if there is any news in there in between the Nazi tweets. After a while, I stopped doing that because it’s like, I don’t want to have to read through Nazi crap just to see what’s in the news.”

Reid believes that Threads has rendered Twitter useless for her, as she can now find all the news and content she needs in one place. She even questioned the survival of Twitter if more people like her decide to leave.

Joining Reid on the show, NBC News reporter Ben Collins suggested that Twitter may continue to thrive due to its appeal to certain groups, including those with extreme ideologies.

“This is the reality we’re in right now. Everyone is sort of planting their flag all throughout the internet because we’re in a new era. This is like the great reset social media,” Collins explained. “The problem is now, of course, this is sort of the issue we have going forward: How do we determine which one of these is important politically? How do we determine which user base has power and is driving people to the polls?”

Reid then speculated that right-wing Twitter users might eventually become bored with conversing solely amongst themselves and seek out platforms where they can engage with a wider audience.

“They want to be where the liberals are because they want to own the libs, and they can only do that in places where normal people are,” Reid suggested. “And I wonder if they start trying to infect and impact Threads the same way, and whether there are enough guardrails to keep them from coming over there.”

Reid concluded by noting that right-wing users tend to avoid interacting with each other and prefer engaging with “normal people” on more mainstream platforms.

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