Not that I disagree, but people thought Twitter would crash and burn in a matter of weeks if not days after workforce reduction.
Be prepared to be wrong, and the political consequences if you are wrong about this.
Be prepared to be wrong, and the political consequences if you are wrong about this.
You start with $40B
But I don't know what metrics you're judging by other than general ~vibes~ but 75+% loss of valuation is a pretty clear crash and burn. Additionally people are still leaving the site because it's such a cesspool, so yeah running a site into the ground with fewer users and is way easier than running a site with more users.
Let alone the technology itself. Someone liked one of my tweets the other day and it showed up in my notifications but it took hours to show up on my page as a like. Sometimes I tweet and it doesn't show up for a long time and I don't even know if it successfully posted. And every single one of my notifications is right wing, not a single liberal notification on most days.
Not even mentioning that Musk has been pretty eager to ban people he disagrees with. Which is the opposite of what he said he would do. And "tweet" was a "verb"... you know how hard it is to get your own verb as a product? But he just threw that brand equity out.
So yeah, it may not have crashed and burned but from a technology and a culture perspective it is not what it used to be.
How about we do what HN was made for and actually have intelligent debate on the topic? If you downvoted it you must have an opinion. Unless of course you're a bot or a voting ring.
The only thing I can see a legitimate downvote for is the right vs liberal promoted tweets. But that's not actually a political statement. My Twitter account is 100% tech no politics AT ALL yet somehow 90% of my recommended tweets it shows me notifications for are FAR right (not even center right). That should be concerning no matter what party you're in. That is beyond coincidence. It is definitely not showing me them based on my interests as I have shown no interest in tweets like that. So what is it using to show them to me?