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It sounds like Musk is going to tell advertisers to kick rocks and try to monetize the platform.

Where are people gonna go if not on Twitter? The left isn't gonna have better luck with their own truth social or parler. The network effect is too big with Twitter. It's not fun if you're not dunking on your enemies. That's the fun of Twitter.

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> Where are people gonna go if not on Twitter?

I think you may be over-estimating how much most people "need" something like Twitter. For the vast majority of users, a news feed and private messaging (WhatsApp, iMessage, etc.) are good enough.

I think you're underestimating how much actual users of Twitter use Twitter.

I think this comment will age well.

My guess is that the percent of people who use social media will decrease by half over the coming decade, at least in the US and Europe.

Based on what? Social media is addictive. For people to get off of it, they're going to need some help. We don't currently have facilities to help people kick the habit.

I appreciate your perspective. I used Twitter to follow industry news. But the people I cared about left and so did I. It’s so boring and pointless now. Absolutely no value to me anymore.

Facebook could allow for special profiles that are only comprised of statuses. That would be a Twitter clone in a nutshell that would already have high adoption.

That would require Facebook to make a shrewd business decision though so never mind.

It would also require people, who I am assuming lean left, to trust Zuck over Elon after the last 5 years of talking about how terrible Zuck and his platform are. I don't see that happening. Nobody wants grandma reading their tweets.

I thought one of his big free speech flag poles is that he was going to run it as it should be run, monetization be damned?

he bragged that he didn't care about making a profit in one of those public Q&A rountables this year. a lot of weird statements about a company that he seems to hate despite using it to pump his fortune

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