It's honestly impressive to me how one of the richest bourgeois fucks on Earth can destroy an app so big as Twitter... what happened to "too big to fail"?
It's soo bad now. You can't visit profiles without signing in. No wonder Hexbear has basically no Twitter screenshots on front page now.
Hexbear has basically no Twitter screenshots on front page now.
blessed relief
In spite of the months and months of talk about how Twitter is going to die, it seems to keep chugging along and it's baffling as fuck. Is Elon just dumping endless cash in the thing to keep it afloat, or are there enough chuds paying for blue checks while being all
?IIRC twitter never really made much money, and was sustained by VCs, so it didn't actually need to make much money from new revenue streams to stay affloat.
As for its continued existence, it's a combination of inertia and a lack of competition. It's easier to just keep using twitter than to move to a new site, where all the people you follow might not go. A lot of people don't like Threads because of the Zucc, while Bluesky is still in early access, and Mastodon was never going to be a serious competitor because it requires too much effort. Eventually, though, individual users reach a tipping point and either leave or just stop posting, and I expect this will lead to a long, slow decline.
Somebody posted a paper here a couple days ago. Basically, none of these VC-funded companies ever need to make money. That is not their purpose. As long as the VCs are able to sell their stake for a profit, it doesn't matter what happens to the company. USUALLY it isn't one of the richest men on Earth who individually gets left holding the bag though.
That's what's so funny about the whole situation. In a system stacked so hard in his favor my man still managed to fuck it up.
https://digg.com still serves traffic and employs like 20+ people and that shit's been dead for 13 years. Twitter's already passed the point of no return
You have to be a special kind of stupid to fail this hard while being that rich
Recently got a notification when I clicked a twitter link that I had been logged out, but I wasn't ever logged in on Firefox. Also told me that blocking was suspended. The blue check blocker also made it a ghost town. I liked to follow artists and vtubers on twitter but it's too much of a cesspit to even log in.
Yea buying all the artists and celebs check marks for free was a smart move by Musk. Makes it impossible to distinguish random who paid 8 dollars and those who were given for free.
He's gonna make the entire site pay-walled eventually. That will be the death-knell for Twitter. Just gonna squeeze that last bit of money from the stans and shut down the servers after a month.
Forcing poor posters to touch grass.
Those who pay get to spam as much as they want (and there's plenty of "verified" bots)
Extremely critical support for
helping proles unplug from the torment nexus while boug and PMCs remain wired.
You can't drive profit from it. Just like any other medium, it doesn't intrinsically generate something of value for the capitalists, there's nowhere to get meaningful buy in. But the costs are high. So much like a newspaper, they need the advertisers. Point being that this shit is inherently unprofitable.
Charging for text messages like it's going out of style or something
