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Twitter Under Elon Musk
« on: October 29, 2022, 08:46:47 PM »
Jury is still out.  But given the nature of this enterprise, Musk might just sink it by force of his polarizing personality.  Social media is different from SpaceX, Tesla ... brick and mortar kind of business.  You can partake of your own drug in the latter 2 and actually benefit the product.  Social media has less tolerance for a domineering owner.
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Re: Twitter Under Elon Musk
« Reply #1 on: October 29, 2022, 08:59:09 PM »
But he is coming to open it up.

Twitter died the day they banned Trump - a whole president of US of A. Trump had promoted Twitter and used it against the mainstream media.

Nothing screamed censorship than that. Nothing screamed betrayal than that.

Musk has thick skin...and if he frees twitter...for everyone to come and ventilate...in world...twitter will become the social media for many.

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Re: Twitter Under Elon Musk
« Reply #2 on: October 29, 2022, 09:14:50 PM »
But he is coming to open it up.

Twitter died the day they banned Trump - a whole president of US of A. Trump had promoted Twitter and used it against the mainstream media.

Nothing screamed censorship than that. Nothing screamed betrayal than that.

Musk has thick skin...and if he frees twitter...for everyone to come and ventilate...in world...twitter will become the social media for many.


Trump was polarizing and extreme.  They banned him, after the January 6th insurrection - on his way out - after resisting a lot of pressure from users.  If he frees it up for Trump and his minions, I fear it will go the way of Truth Social, gab, etc.  It will have die-hards who won't leave it, but the rest will. 

Right now, at least in the US stream, it's already starting to seem like "Elon" is trending every other minute for saying this or that.
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Re: Twitter Under Elon Musk
« Reply #3 on: October 29, 2022, 10:05:35 PM »
But he is coming to open it up.

Twitter died the day they banned Trump - a whole president of US of A. Trump had promoted Twitter and used it against the mainstream media.

Nothing screamed censorship than that. Nothing screamed betrayal than that.

Musk has thick skin...and if he frees twitter...for everyone to come and ventilate...in world...twitter will become the social media for many.


Makes a lot of sense. Cant believe we agree on this.
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Re: Twitter Under Elon Musk
« Reply #4 on: October 29, 2022, 11:55:07 PM »
Twt depends a lot on advertisers. None will wnt their face next to Kanye
Remember myspace??
It died due to too much crap.
FB is already dying/dead due to too much crap.

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Re: Twitter Under Elon Musk
« Reply #5 on: October 30, 2022, 10:38:17 AM »
FB will not die that easily. May suffer some setbacks but dying? No. Twt will morph and grow still.
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Re: Twitter Under Elon Musk
« Reply #6 on: October 30, 2022, 06:17:41 PM »
FB will not die that easily. May suffer some setbacks but dying? No. Twt will morph and grow still.

Facebook is the transitor radio of information age. it is only in developing countries where it has currency

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Re: Twitter Under Elon Musk
« Reply #7 on: November 01, 2022, 06:34:40 PM »
most young moved to SNAP,TIKTOK etc
Twitter is as dead as a DoDoo
I thjnk musk is testing how far ordinary aare willing to take nonsense before letting it die.

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Re: Twitter Under Elon Musk
« Reply #8 on: November 01, 2022, 07:15:16 PM »
Twitter is about to die like Facebook. he needs to let it be

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Re: Twitter Under Elon Musk
« Reply #9 on: November 01, 2022, 11:42:28 PM »
Twitter is about to die like Facebook. he needs to let it be

maybe he bought it to kill it.

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Re: Twitter Under Elon Musk
« Reply #10 on: November 04, 2022, 11:32:19 PM »
Mastodon getting hyped up as one of the destinations for twitter refugees.  Elon is a toxic character addicted to himself.  At this rate twitter will be competing for the QAnon crowd.
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