Elon's doing so many things that will gut Twitter/X. When he gives up trying, what lessons will he learn?
This is my breaking point. I will not give up anonymity on this platform.
This is my breaking point. I will not give up anonymity on this platform.
I keep hearing this, but people keep using Twitter.
That he’s “gutting” Twitter seems more like something you hope to see, not something that’s actually happening.
I don't find that kind of an argument very convincing. It doesn't seem to hold true in the long run.
In the early days of the web, a username and password were typically enough for creating an account for the web sites that even required an account in the first place.
Then more and more sites started also requiring an email address be provided to create and/or keep using an existing account.
Then more and more sites started also requiring a phone number.
Then more and more sites started also requiring a real name.
Now more and more sites want to see some sort of government-issued ID.
Over time, more and more personal and private information seems to be demanded in order to use many web sites.
Even if some particular piece of information isn't demanded today, it seems likely enough to me that it will be demanded in the future.
They've just been on the front-page of all the Western media today, from the FT, to BBC to the NYTimes, they're doing quite all-right.
Meanwhile I realized today that I have genuinely forgotten the name of the Twitter clone put forward by Zuckerberg, C...something. Ah, no, I've just googled it now, it's Threads. Yeah, that project is dead in the water.
b) After its initial peak Threads started to lose users largely because of missing features e.g. web app, search, hashtags, chronological sort etc. One by one these are being added and users are slowly coming back. Meta is not going to kill Threads whilst it is providing rich behavioural data into their Instagram/Facebook ad serving.
That's not really a very useful metric, because Musk paid way too much for it in the first place, and even without that it was probably overvalued to start with (IMHO). Besides, in the end a valuation, especially for a private company like Twitter/X, is not really all that useful and just a bunch of people going "well, I'd pay this much for it, I guess..."
I don't know if Twitter is doing okay or not, but I do know this is not a good metric.
They are what investors will be looking at to decide if Twitter/X heads into bankruptcy or fights to live another day.
I cannot recall the last time the-site-formerly-known-as-twitter was in the news for positive reasons.