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Ask HN: Is Elon Musk Destroying Twitter?
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Re: Ask HN: Is Elon Musk Destroying Twitter?
#12For good!
Re: Ask HN: Is Elon Musk Destroying Twitter?
#13Just experimentation. He bought the company at the top of the market and has a large debt bill, likely that is all there is to the frequent changes.
It's obvious that existing users will find this unsettling.
Re: Ask HN: Is Elon Musk Destroying Twitter?
#14Nope. The (people aka) users, who are ... most educated, most intelligent and, ... most followed, are destroying twitter. In somewhat more comprehensible terms: ... the golden calves are destroying twitter, not the guy who bought the thing from the guy who had no fucking idea what he was doing until someone told him ... (aka ... the dog).
Elon Musk is currently the most followed person on Twitter.
There might be a reason for that...
https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/678x250q70/r/923/fyVf45.j...
Re: Ask HN: Is Elon Musk Destroying Twitter?
#15No, he's transforming it into a different service while getting value from the existing userbase. It's a way to make a popular tech company without relying on sheer luck that it gets a critical mass of users.
Re: Ask HN: Is Elon Musk Destroying Twitter?
#16Interesting philosophical question: if a man buys a burning dumpster and then, giggling madly, proceeds to throw in several sticks of dynamite caked, for truly inexplicable reasons, in his own feces, can he really be said to have destroyed it, or has he merely, if perhaps prematurely, put it out of the world’s collective misery?
Re: Ask HN: Is Elon Musk Destroying Twitter?
#17Nope.
We're just watching the over-reaction here once again screaming at another Twitter speed bump magnified by the techies.
Just like the other speed bumps before, this will be yet another nothing.
Re: Ask HN: Is Elon Musk Destroying Twitter?
#18Nope. We're just watching the over-reaction here once again screaming at another Twitter speed bump magnified by the techies. Just like the other speed bumps before, this will be yet another nothing.
There you are!
Re: Ask HN: Is Elon Musk Destroying Twitter?
#19I think the simple explanation seems to be that he vastly overpaid for it, tried his best to get out of buying, and now that he has sunk all this money into it, he is trying all quickfire ways of making money via Twitter (most of which seem ridiculously bad but I doubt there are many good options for making good money via Twitter).
He should have tried at least a little bit the way that has made Twitter profitable for some quarters in the past instead of diving head first into thinking people would want to pay. Making the platform appealing to advertisers and having a sales team get them to spend.
Re: Ask HN: Is Elon Musk Destroying Twitter?
#20The site is totally unusable right now unless you're a paid subscriber, in which case it's only very slightly less unusable - so by definition I'd say yeah, Twitter as we knew it has been destroyed. Whether Elon intends to backpedal in the next 12-24 hours as seems to be his MO remains to be seen.