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The probability of bankruptcy is rising the longer Musk is in control which would likely cause it to shut down completely!
How many companies has Musk bankrupted?
I'm kind of surprised that whoever owns Tumblr this week isn't pushing it harder; Tumblr is, when it comes to it, more or less twitter without the character limit and with a much worse mobile app (most Twitter features were effectively copied from Tumblr).
That said, I'm not sure that there needs to be a single direct replacement for Twitter; historically, when a social network dies, generally it isn't replaced by a direct clone but by different things.
Kara Swisher recently interviewed Noam Bardin, the creator of: https://post.news/ This seems like a public square with the exact opposite goals of Elon (heavy moderation)
> We believe in freedom of speech and will oppose any government's attempt to censor speech on our platform. However, we have rules, which we plan to rigorously enforce via content moderation, with the help of our community Bruh…
Well, there's Mastodon, of course. I'm kind of surprised that whoever owns Tumblr this week isn't pushing it harder; Tumblr is, when it comes to it, more or less twitter without the character limit and with a much worse mobile app (most Twitter features were effectively copied from Tumblr). That said, I'm not sure that there needs to be a single direct replacement for Twitter; historically, when a social network dies…
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2022/11/elon-...
I actually had a really good idea for a social media site this month, just before Elon bought twitter. I've been working on the idea a bit, but without a strong network effect it might not go anywhere. People flocked to Twitter because of who was there.
I have one as well. What's your killer feature? Mine is that it is invite-only, and if you break the rules, the person that invited you and everybody else they have invited gets booted from the platform. Apart from that, the only other rule is don't be illegal, don't spam, and post whatever the hell you want. I don't mean it to replace Twitter. It's more like a social experiment. If there are permanent social consequ…
Ad money is drying up as companies are slashing online ad budgets. Now I'm sure eventually if Twitter goes down, traditional media will settle on a specific app to promote heavily, but this time, it will be on their terms.