Elon's Twitter

[TGLS]

One thing that occurs to me about all of this: If Twitter crashes, and I mean, really crashes, what is the future of Twitter? Will it die or will someone else buy it for nothing?

Possibly cannibalized for parts, possibly the bank seizes the company and it's put in receivership and dies a slow death, possibly someone swoops in. Maybe everyone moves to Mastodon or something.

[TGLS]

Hey look everybody, The Donald's back on Twitter!

[McAvoy]

Hey look everybody, The Donald's back on Twitter!

Should be fun.

[hammerofglass]

He also brought back Babylon Bee and Jordan Peterson, so he's got the place just how he wants it for the week it lasts before it goes down and stays down because nobody who knows how the software works works there anymore.

[McAvoy]

He also brought back Babylon Bee and Jordan Peterson, so he's got the place just how he wants it for the week it lasts before it goes down and stays down because nobody who knows how the software works works there anymore.

And he isn't exactly creating a work environment for those who could figure it out either.

We all know Elon is the type of guy who thinks he is the smartest person in any room.

[Draco Dracul]

Oh I think we're going to see a huge collapse of most of the Web 2.0 infrastructure because it's just not that profitable.

[ProfessorDetective]

Oh I think we're going to see a huge collapse of most of the Web 2.0 infrastructure because it's just not that profitable.

They've almost NEVER been profitable. (Twitter was actually JUST ABOUT to cross that line before Musk torched it.) No, the real cash is all of it being a massive data collection matrix that they pass around to each other to fuel targeted ads. THAT'S why Twitter is in free fall, the brand accounts are jumping ship after the Twitter Blue fiasco cost Lockheed-Martin and EliLily billions in stock value.

And then there are the other corps blowing cash on stupid fads. Zuckerburg trying to make VR Chat Business Edition, for example.

I could see some of the giants falling, but some of them will keep standing. Probably the ones with server farms in their portfolios.

[McAvoy]

Oh I think we're going to see a huge collapse of most of the Web 2.0 infrastructure because it's just not that profitable.

They've almost NEVER been profitable. (Twitter was actually JUST ABOUT to cross that line before Musk torched it.) No, the real cash is all of it being a massive data collection matrix that they pass around to each other to fuel targeted ads. THAT'S why Twitter is in free fall, the brand accounts are jumping ship after the Twitter Blue fiasco cost Lockheed-Martin and EliLily billions in stock value.

And then there are the other corps blowing cash on stupid fads. Zuckerburg trying to make VR Chat Business Edition, for example.

I could see some of the giants falling, but some of them will keep standing. Probably the ones with server farms in their portfolios.

So... Elon's vision is ads all over the place like porn with commercials hitting left and right while at the same time you having to subscribe to it.

Nevermind paying for levels of authentication.

[clearspira]

The problem with the internet in general is that we are all moochers. We want everything for free and often actively prevent these websites from making money by adblocking or chuckling at the idea of donating or buying a subscription.

Its like video games. People spend £60 on a game and think that entitles them to years of free play, updates, new content and developer support. When in reality, you've actually contributed almost nothing to the upkeep of that game. The ''whales'' meanwhile, the ones buying the loot boxes and the battle passes etc. are single-handedly keeping that game afloat once it falls out of the sales charts.

The fact that you are putting in hundreds, nay thousands of hours, into something FOR FREE and expecting something back FOR FREE makes you borderline worthless to these companies. You are actually supporting nothing. You are just entitled.

[hammerofglass]

It's social media, all the people putting thousands of hours into it ARE the product. Even when they have ad blockers you get to harvest so much data to sell.