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Why would everyone flee? Twitter had a problem with censorship and Musk is going to fix it. Some will come back, some will leave, the tone overall will change a

• dragonwriter 4y ago
  > Twitter had a problem with censorship and Musk is going to fix it. A substantial share of the userbase either disagrees with Musk that there was a problem with content moderation or has a view of the nature of the problem that is at odds with Musk’s. The other thing Musk seems to be surprised to discover is that the while tweaks might be desirable, the basic outline of content moderation and advertisers confidence in it was very much tied into Twitter’s ability to make money, and since he’s saddled it with a very large amount of additional debt service costs, that is something that becomes quite an acute problem if it is lost.
  • bumblebritches5 4y ago
  • akomtu 4y ago
    I don't know if that particular userbase is valuable to Musk, advertisers or the quality of Twitter in general. I've seen numbers that about half of Twitter users are young, infantile in other words, and they tend to drive emotional crusades. On the other hand, this segment of users may be valuable to advertisers. They may be valuable not because they have money to buy things, but because it's easier to impress them with false values, so when they grow up, they'll start buying stuff from those advertisers. In any case, a good shakeup will only help Twitter.
    • dragonwriter 4y ago
      > I don’t know if that particular userbase is valuable to Musk, advertisers or the quality of Twitter in general. I’ve seen numbers that about half of Twitter users are young Young adults are the prime advertising demo, and have been for quite a long time.