It might help if they didn't put all their efforts into killing Nitter and other useful frontends.
this post was submitted on 23 Mar 2024
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Eh I've been reading this headline forever.
Call me when it's Myspace.
Myspace existed for a really long time after it ceased to be relevant. It actually only ceased to be relevant after they lost all the music that had been uploaded. That's when independent musicians finally abandoned it, and it basically disappeared.
Reporting on "X" is what's keeping it alive, IMHO. Stop reporting on it and it will stop being used. Alternatively, if there's some major incident, that would probably be enough to finish it. It may eventually go bankrupt between now and then, but it's actually pretty useful for people wanting to spread nazi propaganda so the far right will probably keep pumping money in until it collapses.
Reporting on “X” is what’s keeping it alive, IMHO.
Nah. "X" had $Billions in cash from the buyout deal + loans. X will simply not fall until all that cash dries up, and they reach the end of their loans. Even then, Elon Musk can just command Tesla to buy a whole bunch of Twitter-advertisements to transfer money to Twitter/X and keep the party alive a bit longer.
I don't know how long it will last. But Elon Musk was over $200 Billion in assets when he bought the company. He's lost a ton of that money, but Elon Musk still has a long way to go before he runs out of options. It does seem like Musk's wealth is collapsing before our eyes however (their big bet on China / Gigafactory Shanghai looks like its about to go bad this quarter), but I don't expect X to fall until after Elon Musk runs out of money.
There's a lot of money that needs to be deflated / lost before this whole thing collapses. But like gravity, it should be inevitable. No one can lie, steal, and cheat money forever and get away with it IMO, eventually people catch on. But it can last for more decades than people expect.
It's turned into such a cesspool of right wing nut jobs and musk groupies. Huge echo chamber.
I use Twitter through a browser and ad blocker and the content is borderline dogshit as it is. I use it because inertia means the things I want to find are still represented there. But it can't be long before some major accounts move elsewhere, or deprioritize their presence. I'm thinking mainly of news orgs, but NGOs and governments might move too.
"The platform struggles to attract and keep users": why should I give up my data to an alt-right platform owned by a billionaire?
For Twitter I'm apparently also a turbo user, as I get loading errors every day, after opening a few tabs quickly. Then it takes a while before I'm unblocked. Before Elon bought Twitter this never happened.
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