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Twitter Alternatives Bluesky & Threads Growing Fast

Discussion in 'Too Hot for Swamp Gas' started by citygator, Nov 24, 2024 at 4:07 PM.

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  1. Nov 25, 2024 at 12:24 PM #21
    citygator

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  2. Nov 25, 2024 at 12:29 PM #22
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  3. Nov 25, 2024 at 12:34 PM #23
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    Said it before, Musk didn't acquire X/Twitter to make money. He acquired it so that he could have his personal social media platform. When one has a net worth of over $300 billion a net loss of over $200 million is a drop in the bucket.
     
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  4. Nov 25, 2024 at 1:36 PM #24
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    You think he bought Twitter to make money? He bought Twitter to save free speech and frankly he succeeded.
     
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  5. Nov 25, 2024 at 1:39 PM #25
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    Musk bought Twitter to save free speech in his view. That simple. Did he overpay? Absolutely. But anyone trying to tell Musk he doesn't know what he's doing isn't to be taken seriously. It'd be like me criticizing Lebron on what he needs to work to improve his basketball skills.
     
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  6. Nov 25, 2024 at 1:41 PM #26
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    Make up your mind. First you say he has a secret way to make it profitable ("you dont think the richest man in the world know how to make money?", now you say he bought it to lose $35B (You think he bought twitter to make money?"). Boy are you carrying his water.

    I agree that it is a vanity project, he just wanted to own it. Good luck to him. He spent $40B of mostly other peoples money for whatever reason but it definitely wasnt to make money, nor make twitter better.
     
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  7. Nov 25, 2024 at 2:04 PM #27
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    He's a fanboy. But Elon will end up making money off of twitter, just not directly from twitter. He bought a $44 billion megaphone for himself and his interests.
     
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  8. Nov 25, 2024 at 2:07 PM #28
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    I'm laughing at you thinking everything he buys is just to make money. I also laughed at you thinking he doesn't know how to make a company money because last time I checked, he was the richest person in the world by close to a 100 Billion dollars LOL. Just next level hilarity that you think you know more than Musk concerning how to make money.
     
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  9. Nov 25, 2024 at 2:07 PM #29
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    Still butthurt about the election I see...
     
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  10. Nov 25, 2024 at 2:59 PM #30
    citygator

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    Interesting critique. Elon doesnt want tweets linked to external sites. So if CNN posts a link to its site it gets deprioritized. Hmm.

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  11. Nov 25, 2024 at 3:04 PM #31
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    Rockets and batteries sure. He's done well. Social platforms he has lost more money than anyone in the history of social media. I have never lost $40B in social media equity so I am qualified to criticize it. His rockets I wont weigh in on. Seems to have that under control.
     
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  12. Nov 25, 2024 at 3:22 PM #32
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  13. Nov 25, 2024 at 3:31 PM #33
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    You think he bought it to save free speech?!?! I think he bought it to give his own voice a platform, and he uses it as he deems fit. Which is his right.
     
  14. Nov 25, 2024 at 3:35 PM #34
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    Maybe more like criticizing Shaq’s free throws. Even with that he’s still considered one of the best ever.
     
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  15. Nov 25, 2024 at 3:37 PM #35
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    I haven’t been to BlueSky, but I can tell you that when I read various a sports writers announcing they’ve joined BlueSky, there’s plenty of abusive responses on Twitter. Sometimes, people just suck.
     
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  16. Nov 25, 2024 at 3:59 PM #36
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  17. Nov 25, 2024 at 4:14 PM #37
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    Except most aren't. Most are just copying tweets onto blue sky.
     
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  18. Nov 26, 2024 at 8:19 AM #38
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    Well, here is Musk's own words on the situation:

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  19. Nov 26, 2024 at 8:24 AM #39
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    Musk didn't lose $40Billion on Twitter either. No one will know what he lost on Twitter unless he sells it. Plus he's going to be bringing in somewhere around $3.1Billion in revenue this year. But yeah, I'll just take some rando's post on a message board over what the richest guy in the world is doing LOL. Too funny.

    Twitter (X) Ad Revenue (2017–2027) [Oct 2024 Update]
     
  20. Nov 26, 2024 at 8:24 AM #40
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    Keep carrying his water. That was said well after it failed. Here is his intent going into the purchase and early on in his own words:

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    Elon Musk’s improbable path to making X an “everything app” - Ars Technica

    Turning Twitter into an everything app is arguably the reason that Elon Musk purchased Twitter. He openly craved the success of the Chinese everything app WeChat, telling Twitter staff soon after purchasing the app that "you basically live on WeChat in China because it’s so usable and helpful to daily life, and I think if we can achieve that, or even get close to that at Twitter, it would be an immense success,” The Guardian reported.

    In October 2022, Musk teased that he "could be wrong," but he expected that within three to five years, he could turn Twitter into an everything app (also known as a super app). But more than a year later, X still seems far away from following in WeChat's footsteps.

    Musk's grand vision has always been to morph the bird app—a mostly unprofitable place where users initially went to tweet "short bursts of inconsequential information"—into something hugely profitable: The only app a user would ever need in daily life.
     
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