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  • gsa32@lemmy.worldEnglish
    162·
    2 years ago

    Does anyone else genuinely think Twitter/X will die anytime soon with the latest changes Elmo is making?

    • picassowary@lemmy.worldEnglish
      23·
      2 years ago

      depends on your definition of “die”. it is not going to go offline, but it will certainly cease to be of any moderate utility to most people and will cease to have any meaningful cultural impact within a couple of years at this rate

        • picassowary@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          2 years ago

          i do think there is a (unlikely) scenario where tesla’s value begins to shrink which causes a significant liquidity problem for twitter since there is no way the site is generating meaningful revenue now, but i think that kind of speculation is pointless in the end since who knows what similarly rich doofus he could get to bail him out.

          • jerry@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            2 years ago

            The loans are due soon, and were guaranteed by Tesla stock, so it’s fairly likely.

    • thehatfox@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      2 years ago

      Platforms rarely completely die, as in they shut down, they just become irrelevant. Digg still around despite being long supplanted by Reddit, MySpace still exists after everyone went to Facebook, but nobody cares about them anymore.

      Twitter/X will end up the same, unless some real catastrophic happens financially or legally.

    • electrogamerman@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      2 years ago

      With all the public talking about it and not understanding that they are giving the popularity, im pretty sure its not going to die soon.

      Its weird, some people seem to be on things just because daddy elon fucks is related to it. Its sickening.

    • Goodie@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      2 years ago

      I think it’s going to have a slow death.

      Right now it’s going through it’s “Lady gaga phase”, doing more and more ridiculous things. Maybe this is the equivalent of a meat dress.

      Eventually people will grow tired of the drama. Either it is a good product at the end (Lady Gaga is a pretty bloody great singer) or it’ll be dead.