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> Twitter cannot survive at current scale with any reasonable subscription price.

Twitter was not bought to make money. Twitter is expenditure for narrative control.

We’ll see how long Twitter can bleed out. Even Musk can’t afford it forever.

My bet is on bail-out or resell to msft . Google is possible which would be nice assuming same treatment as yt but meta is unlikely since they have threads .

That is correct. Valuation is irrelevant.

Musk bought it to cancel the woke culture but got cancelled instead, lol.

FWIW it's not really fair that everyone interesting left just because they didn't like Musk which turned twitter into boring place, basically self reinforcing cycle.

When you choose to turn your establishment into a Nazi bar, people who don't want to hang out with Nazis will find someplace else to be. That isn't unfair, that's just the consequences of your actions.

Musk didn't want those interesting people on his platform to begin with, and he he did everything he could to drive them away.

What I witnessed was tons of people jumping ship on day 1.

Elon jumped into conspiracy theories a bit later, tho I don't see his tweets anymore for some reason.

And for nazi's - you'll find them everywhere if you squint hard enough.

You don't have to squint very hard to find them, given that the result of Elon's quest to destroy Twitter's "woke mind virus" (which he was ranting about when he bought the platform) is making a safe space for them and boosting their content as much as possible.

Yet somehow I heard more about them here than on twitter.

Also kinda amazing even anti-elon bots haven't been stopped - https://x.com/teslaeurope/status/1831622360656421294

> What I witnessed was tons of people jumping ship on day 1.

There were definitely waves of jumping ship. Some people left on day 1, presumably because, well, life is too short to have to deal with Musk. But IIRC the biggest boosts to Mastodon traffic (for most of the early period Bluesky was invite only so not a useful metric) were around when it started banning a bunch of journalists (this later seems to have been abandoned as a strategy), brought back a bunch of particularly egregious lunatics, and nuked the third party API. Those inciting events were scattered from late 2022 to early 2023.

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