When did we get away from saying “X - formerly known as Twitter” ? I liked seeing that gentle nudge in every headline.
How long do you do that for? He changed it to X who cares how dumb it is that is now the name.
I genuinely hope this platform burns to the ground.
I already lost all faith in it a long time ago, but kept my account to occasionally respond to a friend, or just look at feeds i don’t follow.
When he publicly reinstated fascists though, that was the last drop in the ocean of issues
The moment Musk fired engineers, I removed my account. Then I watched Twitter integration fail for a few applications Ive worked on, and removed that login/access.
From there, I watched multiple services fail. Ive watched spam bots take over. I watched drama after drama, Musk demanding weird choices like his tweets get priority.
It’s such a mess.
Never going to happen. His other companies are highly successful and private so he can always borrow money to from other companies to keep twitter afloat
If that’s what he’s doing, he still wont sink money into Twitter forever.
Tesla is not private. He borrowed a huge amount against his Tesla shares to buy twitter. That’s one of the reasons he wanted that giant bonus. He needs the money to keep paying off the loans.
Schadenfreude intensifies.
The biggest loss here is that I follow a lot of artists on Twitter and when it goes kaput I won’t have easy access to follow them.
Probably near zero chance. Fediverse is dead empty compared to the alternatives, so not ideal if they want to reach out to their fans.
You know, that’s a bit chicken-egg, right? Like, platforms don’t magically get users, those users need a reason to want to be there.
The issue is that even if half of them go there, the rest are scattered to the wind, and you’re not guaranteed to find them again.