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Loads of people said that about Twitter in 2006 when it was a "knock off." It's been proven wrong again and again. And Musk is the kind of guy who can create si
by wyclif 5y ago
Loads of people said that about Twitter in 2006 when it was a "knock off." It's been proven wrong again and again. And Musk is the kind of guy who can create significantly large network effects and economies of scale.
- tehwebguy 5y agoTwitter has never been a knockoff experience, it was as different from the social media that succeeded before it as TikTok is from YouTube. Meanwhile any number of near-exact replicas of it exist with a different flavor: freer speech, paid service, decentralized, specifically for particular political affiliations to name a few. None of them have made a dent.
- wyclif 5y agoBut that just proves my point: they didn't make a dent because none of them had the network effects and economies of scale that a proposed alternative created by Musk would have.
- tehwebguy 5y agoMany founders & VCs have believed this, notable spectacular failures include Vessel & Quibi. I don’t claim to know exactly what it takes to successfully achieve this but one or even several content / creator verticals won’t cut it IMO.