Disney almost bought Twitter in 2016
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Disney almost bought Twitter in 2016
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Re: Disney almost bought Twitter in 2016
#2If Disney had bought Twitter it would have gone away just like Tumblr.
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#3> But: maybe? Presumably a Twitter under Disney would be a very different Twitter today.
We might have had to sign over to Disney copyright of all our tweets for 999 years?
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#4If Disney had bought Twitter it would have gone away just like Tumblr.
what if salesforce bought it?
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#5> But: maybe? Presumably a Twitter under Disney would be a very different Twitter today. We might have had to sign over to Disney copyright of all our tweets for 999 years?
Disney would relentlessly astroturf shill their latest productions on Twitter? Oh wait
I wonder if part of the calculus was that Disney could get a lot of marketing value out of the platform by participating in it as Millions of Totally Real Human Users without actually owning it. Ergo these PR liabilities gain relative weight in the decision. Perhaps owning it would be a liability in itself. Curious that Dorsey is on their board too.
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#6It's hard to imagine why the board thought that was a good idea. They should've bought Twitch or something Twitch-like that could be more easily molded to be "on brand".
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#7A decision more guaranteed to nuke both brands is hard to think of. As the article says, the hate speech problem is extremely difficult to solve, but Twitter also has all sorts of NSFW, queer, and activist communities that are the exact opposite of Disneyfication.
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#9TIL Jack Dorsey is on the board of directors at Disney.
This on top of being the founder/ceo of both twitter and square.
I wonder what his secret is.
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#10TIL Jack Dorsey is on the board of directors at Disney. This on top of being the founder/ceo of both twitter and square. I wonder what his secret is.
Arrogance.