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I feel like the world is divided into two kinds of people: 1. Those who are active on Twitter; and 2. Those who don't and don't even scroll through it. The f
by jmyeet 5y ago
I feel like the world is divided into two kinds of people:
1. Those who are active on Twitter; and
2. Those who don't and don't even scroll through it.
The first group seems to think this buyout is the most pressing issue of our generation. The latter just doesn't care.
I honestly just don't care about Twitter. The only people who "engage" in Twitter are those with a decent number of followers and they're, by definition, a small minority (of the small minority who use Twitter). For the remainder that read Twitter, it's really interchangeable with Facebook or Reddit or whatever. Like Twitter disappearing overnight would (IMHO) have very little impact.
My prediction here is that Elon will take it private, realize the "problems" aren't really problems or are incredibly hard to solve and then after a couple of years there'll be some face-saving reorganization and the whole thing will get made public again, probably for a net total loss.
Luckily (thus far) there's a pretty limited market for conservatives crying about censorship of hate speech masquerading as free speech.