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I wonder if Twitter.com will be abandoned on Jan 21 2024? Someone can claim it and start their own website called Twitter. I was going to joke about Prince and
by dghughes 3y ago
I wonder if Twitter.com will be abandoned on Jan 21 2024? Someone can claim it and start their own website called Twitter.
I was going to joke about Prince and Weird Al fighting over the name but I see I said that already https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11604783 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11604783
- greenyoda 3y agoThey need to hold on to twitter.com (and t.co). Otherwise, many years' worth of existing links to tweets will stop working.
- ceejayoz 3y agoDo they care?
- wlesieutre 3y agoDo they make money by showing ads to people who are able to actually get to their website?
- drewbug01 3y agoOstensibly, although many (most?) of Musk's actions since the takeover have been rather detrimental to this goal.
- ceejayoz 3y agoThat didn’t stop them from limiting the number of tweets users could browse to a tiny number.
- RamenJunkie_ 3y agoMusk had shown over the last year or so that he clearly has no idea how the web or websites work and probably thinks all those links will be magically updated because everyone loves him and wants to make his vision of stupidity be reality and will go and fix them.
- sixothree 3y agoAgain. Do they care?
- dragonwriter 3y ago> Do they make money by showing ads to people who are able to actually get to their website? Increasingly, no.