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Once it fails then someone will buy it cheap and rename it twitter.
If there's anything left to buy aside from tacky merch shirts. I'm sure the creditors will pick it clean and auction off the best bits to the highest bidder.
Maybe, or maybe it'll be another Bebo level disaster.
...I guess it was indeed a disaster because I can't remember even hearing that name before.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bebo
Can't someone else just make Twitter now tho?
Facebook tried with Threads but overcoming ecosystem inertia is hard.
Bingo.
And since won't get back all the staff he dismissed; they're going to have to just slap the Twitter brand on a Mastodon instance.