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> His two examples are Twitter and Reddit whose ad revenue is dying because those two companies have made huge blunders. Elon seems to almost actively be killing Twitter

I disagree. Elon doesn't care about ad revenue. He stated multiple times that the goal is to make Twitter a superapp.

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He also threatened to "thermonuclear name and shame" advertisers who paused spending.

https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-name-shame-adverti...

That was a sarcasm. I should have stated that he doesn't care as much as other companies. Elon, being the richest person on the planet, is uniquely positioned and has a competitive advantage. He can risk losing ad revenue to achieve his goals - minimize censorship and create a super-app.

Is he still the richest twat in the pot? I would have thought his liabilities would have taken their toll on his net worth. Hair plugs can get pricey.

Yes. Elon is still the richest person on the planet. If you thought otherwise, you might want to reconsider your understanding of how wealth is both preserved and accumulated ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

> how wealth is both preserved and accumulated

By shifting your debts on the company you bought with that debt, so other people take the risks of his failures.

Honestly, it sounds like you are cheering and rooting for him to fail with Twitter.

Easy to say if you are not the target, especially from a guy who called others pedo guy

Yes. It's easy because I'm not attacking Elon, so he's not attacking me.

The man that literally censors views he doesn't like.

"Whoever thought owning the libs would be cheap never tried owning a social media company"

https://i.redd.it/6m0sgmktewab1.jpg

Yeah, sounds super focused on free speech.

And Threads censored from Twitter search and before that Mastodon?

> And Threads censored from Twitter search

Where did you get that conspiracy theory from?

To verify your information, I did a search on Twitter with the keyword threads. The search returned thousands of tweets. In fact, the very first tweet is a WSJ article describing how Threads may kill Twitter soon. Further, I searched for the hashtag #threads. The search returned all the tweets hashtagged with #threads.

As someone who works for an asian "superapp", the grass is always greener.

Superapps are self-limiting, because the app-size is too large for many user's phones (Uber has famously had this problem too, and thus split up their apps [0]).

The UX also tends to be a bit weird. Everyone wants to use the superapp differently and so the interface ends up being the lowest common denominator across all product families.

[0] https://apps.apple.com/in/developer/uber-technologies-inc/id...

Maybe, but none of that matters at the moment. These are after-the-fact problems.

Haha, what is a superapp?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super-app

Something like wechat, like payments, messages, socialmedia, shopping, ...

AOL but in the 21st century. Possibly minus the ISP part.

All the shit you do on the web, but controlled by one company, in their app, so they can rent-seek the hell out of everyone else's business.

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