Twitter, Larry mortuus est
“And soon we shall bid adieu to the Twitter brand and, gradually, all the birds”
Elon Musk
There has been much reflection on the disappearance of the Twitter bird, ‘Larry T Bird’*, towards which Elon Musk has always expressed ill-concealed distrust. It is the beginning of a new era, the era of the ‘X’.
What actually is to be underlined here, however, is that no one has yet recognized the bird, albeit virtual, a worthy epicedium, in the same way as the one Catullus dedicated to the sparrow of Lesbia in Carme III: