This is so sad. Twitter was interesting enough, and even when they added unwanted features, it remained "Twitter". This pivoting to a dystopian sci-fi product (that it is not even clear what will do or try to accomplish) will make it dissapear. I wonder how many "new people" (not users) Twitter got in the last time... I am sure all the new accounts is people with other accounts...
PS: Also, how are they going to name the videos uploaded to this new platform?
I wasn’t optimistic when Musk took over Twitter but I was interested to see what he’d do with it. This however is just dumb. Dumb nonsense piled on top of meaningless jargon from a man who thinks he can just will an American WeChat into existence through sheer hubris.
It won’t work but it isn’t even going to be an interesting failure.
I thought this was a revenge play for Musk and he planned to destroy it. He blamed Twitter for his child at least he really seemed to leading up to the purchase. A bigger Hulk vs Gawker.
But even a degraded social media platform is more powerful than owning an entire sports league.
It has been interesting seeing the people who were brainwashed for the last decade waking up to see the ground truth though that Twitter isn’t real life. It’s a lot like alcohol, your problems will still be waiting for you when you sober up.
No it's not a revenge play. A single letter domain is worth a king's ransom and this particular letter lives in his head rent-free; he wouldn't drop that anywhere just for nothing. Elon is obsessed with the mythology of X and wants to build an empire. He wants to own transportation, energy and communication and build some backbone to digital society.
Of course it is. People claim Elon never wanted twitter, and that he was interested in trimming it up and selling it. It's my view that now that he has mated it with his beloved x brand, this is just not the case.
> It has been interesting seeing the people who were brainwashed for the last decade waking up to see the ground truth though that Twitter isn’t real life. It’s a lot like alcohol, your problems will still be waiting for you when you sober up.
Exactly. We have not learned anything once again. Drinking a different brand of alcohol is not quitting the addiction and outrage, so replacing a social network like Twitter or migrating to another social network isn't the solution.
It is just a stop-gap temporary solution before the nastiness arrives. When more people start discovering a new platform, the outrage will inevitably manifest and continue from there, bringing in all the same problems with the added dopamine addiction.
Deleting all social media accounts for good is the proper solution.
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