Biologists, anthropologists, and information theorists do think that social networks, like Musk's bird app, show at least some signs of being flocks.
"Elon's tweet is basically espousing the invisible hand of social behavior," Bak-Coleman says.
In this construction, a social network might have become a collective superintelligence, had capitalists left it to its — our?
Under Musk, Twitter has entered the dance-off phase.
I'll be sad if the Twitter superintelligence starts singing a Kubrickian cover of "Daisy" and implodes into a pile of melting isolinear chips.