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Does anyone else genuinely think Twitter/X will die anytime soon with the latest changes Elmo is making?
depends on your definition of “die”. it is not going to go offline, but it will certainly cease to be of any moderate utility to most people and will cease to have any meaningful cultural impact within a couple of years at this rate
Yeah, even if it costs money to maintain, Elon will hang onto it. It's useful to him.
i do think there is a (unlikely) scenario where tesla’s value begins to shrink which causes a significant liquidity problem for twitter since there is no way the site is generating meaningful revenue now, but i think that kind of speculation is pointless in the end since who knows what similarly rich doofus he could get to bail him out.
tesla will be bought by one of the big guys when they collectively take all of teslas marketshare with affordable, repairable, un-recalled versions of its products.... someone will want the name. it certainly wont be for the manufacturing lines.
The loans are due soon, and were guaranteed by Tesla stock, so it’s fairly likely.
It's the 5th most hit site globally, it's going nowhere.
https://www.similarweb.com/top-websites/
The question is, will it remain that way in the coming years?
MSN messenger was at one point the world's most used communicator app too.
Most of those are not profitable...
And Twitter is saddled with literally billions of dollars of debt it wasn't a year ago, and payments start soon.
Either he's going to have to start paying obscene amounts of his own money to keep it at its current level, or he drastically cuts workers and/or infrastructure.
For this to have worked, he'd have to take one of the popular websites in the world (that doesn't make a profit) and make it mote popular while monetizing it.
So it maintaining it's old position just isn't enough. And things can (likely will) nosedive soon.
Social networks rarely “die”. They simply become irrelevant. MySpace still exists.
Platforms rarely completely die, as in they shut down, they just become irrelevant. Digg still around despite being long supplanted by Reddit, MySpace still exists after everyone went to Facebook, but nobody cares about them anymore.
Twitter/X will end up the same, unless some real catastrophic happens financially or legally.
Why would anybody think like it'll die soon?
Because of how Elmo is running Twitter/X
I still think it'll take 3-5 years before it "dies"
Will Threads ever come popular?
I never had account in Twitter, but for me it looks like it's become a honeypot for right-wing useful idiots. And it has gained a lots of attraction simply because the censorship was ended in just one night.
Yeah it won’t die “soon” because it will be a zombie like Facebook for many many years to come. But retrospectively I think there’s a good chance we’ll remember the Elon takeover as the day it died.
With all the public talking about it and not understanding that they are giving the popularity, im pretty sure its not going to die soon.
Its weird, some people seem to be on things just because daddy elon fucks is related to it. Its sickening.
I think it's going to have a slow death.
Right now it's going through it's "Lady gaga phase", doing more and more ridiculous things. Maybe this is the equivalent of a meat dress.
Eventually people will grow tired of the drama. Either it is a good product at the end (Lady Gaga is a pretty bloody great singer) or it'll be dead.
I mean, myspace.com still exists