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#302280 12-Nov-2022 10:02

Anyone see Twitter becoming a ghost town in the next 12 months ?

Mr Musk seems to be doing everything he can to turn it into something it's not.

I've bailed from most social media now, it's all becoming a giant (more than ever) advertising platform, and if you want your posts to be seen, cough up $$$$.

Going back to IRC and Discord........

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#2995066 12-Nov-2022 11:13

Twitter is a dead man walking.

NOTHING Musk has been involved in is worth close to its market cap (Tesla should be about 1% of its cap based on other car makers)

I have dumped 99% of my (anti) Social network stuff, I am on Facebook about 2 minutes a day just for family stuff.

I run ad blockers and anti-tracking software, run my phone etc through my home VPN to hide where I am, and make use of Pi-hole

Twitter was an open sewer at best.

Trump will be allowed back on very shortly as Musk tries to bring more eyes back to twitter, this will only cause MORE brand damage.

Celebrities , companies and advertisers are leaving, they are VERY nervous about Musk (and rightly so)

The decent programmers, security staff, networking staff , etc will be furiously looking for new jobs, they know the death of twitter can't be far away.

When twitter dies, the whole Musk house of cards goes with him, all of the assets (Tesla etc)will be bought up at fire sale rates by others .

ALL other social networks will struggle with the worst twitter had to offer heading their way as the extremists try and find another platform to should from.

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#2995080 12-Nov-2022 12:11

I think the doom around Twitter is a bit skewed. The US is divided in the middle politically, and the midterms serve as a reminder of that. A platform like Twitter will always get tangled in politics one way or another. Until now it has been seen as having a strong left-leaning bias. Recent changes are enraging the left, but welcomed by the right.

The rest of the world also doesn't really care one way or another.

Twitter was almost dead before the 2016 presidential elections unexpectedly breathed new life into it, for better or for worse. Controversy is not necessarily bad for Twitter.

Twitter was also seeing unsustainable operating losses before this recent controversy. Elon's recent changes have been a hilarious mess, but the roof was already falling. It's possible that this will kill it quicker, but doing nothing would've also led to the same result. Sometimes doing crazy stuff can have good results.

For the record, I don't use any social media and they can all go the way of the dinosaurs as far as I'm concerned. I just think most of the people predicting its downfall want it to die now, and this blurs their vision.

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#2995170 12-Nov-2022 16:35

When he is done killing Twitter, could he please do the same to Facebook?

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#2995177 12-Nov-2022 17:16

A bit more damage and it will get to Google+ levels of bad

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#2995198 12-Nov-2022 20:50

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#2995206 12-Nov-2022 21:51

xpd:

Anyone see Twitter becoming a ghost town in the next 12 months ?

Mr Musk seems to be doing everything he can to turn it into something it's not.

I've bailed from most social media now, it's all becoming a giant (more than ever) advertising platform, and if you want your posts to be seen, cough up $$$$.

Going back to IRC and Discord........

12 months? Do you really give it that long the way things are going?

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#2995210 12-Nov-2022 22:11

I think the rapid changes of features(adding and removing) might have a bigger chance of damaging peoples perception of Twitter than their perception of Musk himself, it's a platform that has no real idea what it wants to be(now talking pushing long form video and audio). If only the 40B+ had gone into building a Youtube competitor..

I expect to see a huge push into video and buying out some influencers for exclusive content(ie MrBeast) but changing peoples perception that twitter is now a chat + VOD + podcast platform plus a bunch of other stuff might be impossible.

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#2995394 13-Nov-2022 11:31

loceff13:

I think the rapid changes of features(adding and removing) might have a bigger chance of damaging peoples perception of Twitter than their perception of Musk himself, it's a platform that has no real idea what it wants to be(now talking pushing long form video and audio). If only the 40B+ had gone into building a Youtube competitor..

I expect to see a huge push into video and buying out some influencers for exclusive content(ie MrBeast) but changing peoples perception that twitter is now a chat + VOD + podcast platform plus a bunch of other stuff might be impossible.

They will go broke well before they are able to implement any of that.

Especially since management are bailing, and the skilled technical staff and programmers will be bailing as fast as they can too.

Next, watch for those that loaned Musk money go for an asset grab to try and minimise their losses, I bet he used Tesla etc to guarantee the funds.

Then comes the fight to see if he will be a bunk mate with Bernie Madoff

I think Musks ego got well ahead of his actual ability to deliver