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To everybody here saying this will kill Twitter: it won't. - firing 75% of the employees didn't kill Twitter - aggressive rate limits and requiring auth didn'
by fallingknife 3y ago
To everybody here saying this will kill Twitter: it won't.
- firing 75% of the employees didn't kill Twitter
- aggressive rate limits and requiring auth didn't kill Twitter
- a well funded competitor with 100 million signups in days didn't kill Twitter (and their engagement is down 70% in just 2 weeks)
And yet here we are on HN again prophesying doom because of a name change. A name change won't kill Twitter either. Their traffic is driven by network effect, not branding. The past year has been a case study in it.
- soderfoo 3y ago[flagged]
- fallingknife 3y ago[flagged]
- irusensei 3y ago> reddit-esque A certain internet board has been referencing this site as "the orange reddit".
- Fnoord 3y ago> The ceremonial cathartic dunking on Elon is one of my least favorite things about HN. > It comes off as very reddit-esque. [...] From [1] > Please don't post comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. It's a semi-noob illusion, as old as the hills. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html