• will_a113@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    When did we get away from saying “X - formerly known as Twitter” ? I liked seeing that gentle nudge in every headline.

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    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

    • Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      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.

    • YⓄ乙 @aussie.zone
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      1 year ago

      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

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        1 year ago

        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.

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    According to the article, the revenue is down 40%…But the costs are also way down? So this title is totally misleading, and a bunch of Lemmies are out here celebrating because they didn’t put 2 and 2 together.

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      Mr/s. financial expert, how much is way down? How does the cost vs revenue compared? Is it a net positive or negative. I’ll wait for you to put 2 and 2 together to see if I celebrate or not yet.

      • UnpluggedFridge@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        X lost half a billion dollars in the first quarter of 2023. Odd that the financial expert didn’t mention this even though it is literally in the same sentence as the “40% drop in revenue” statement in the article.

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        How much more growth could Twitter have anyway?

        Anyone who was interested either had one or had sworn it off well before Musk got involved.

        The only thing that changed for me personally was I could previously see tweets from people without having an account, now I can’t, so I don’t click on twitter links at all. All of the businesses and public services previously announcing things on Twitter do it elsewhere now anyway for that reason.

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    1 year ago

    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.

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        Probably near zero chance. Fediverse is dead empty compared to the alternatives, so not ideal if they want to reach out to their fans.

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          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.

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            In my personal (and therefore, limited) experience, engagement is much harder to get in the fediverse. I hope it improves, but it’s not easy to find people you don’t know in order to follow them, and vice versa.