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> So she's confirming what most have suspected and many have been saying: Musk wants to kill Twitter. This feels like giving him too much credit for forethough

by smt88 3y ago

> So she's confirming what most have suspected and many have been saying: Musk wants to kill Twitter. This feels like giving him too much credit for forethought. Killing Twitter would kill the "everything app" too. All of the everything apps (e.g. WhatsApp) that already exist have a messaging component.

JohnFen 3y ago
By "killing Twitter", what I mean is that he wants to change it to address an entirely different market than what it used to address. That makes the name change make sense -- he wouldn't want the old brand because he doesn't want the old user base. I have no dog in this fight, personally, as I stopped using Twitter years ago, but it's going to be very interesting to see how this shakes out. My guess is that it isn't going to go well, but that's only a guess.
- 3cats-in-a-coat 3y ago
  He doesn’t want the old business model, he doesn’t want the old brand, he doesn’t want the old codebase, he doesn’t want the old userbase, he doesn’t want the old offices, he doesn’t want… I mean what does he want? What did he pay 44 billion for? He’s destroying every bit of this company. It’s not that he doesn’t want it. He simply has no clue what he’s doing.
  - JohnFen 3y ago
    He didn't even want Twitter. He paid the 44 billion[1] because he trolled himself into the deal and couldn't get the courts to let him back out. [1] And he didn't pay that -- most of that is owed by Twitter, not him, and it's why Twitter is in such rough financial shape. Servicing that debt requires more money every year than Twitter ever made. Maybe more than Twitter/X will ever make.
    - 3cats-in-a-coat 3y ago
      It's one thing to make an unwanted purchase, but quite another to burn to the ground out of spite. And I believe it's not out of spite. It's hubris and incompetence.

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> So she's confirming what most have suspected and many have been saying: Musk wants to kill Twitter. This feels like giving him too much credit for forethough

by smt88 3y ago

JohnFen 3y ago
By "killing Twitter", what I mean is that he wants to change it to address an entirely different market than what it used to address. That makes the name change make sense -- he wouldn't want the old brand because he doesn't want the old user base. I have no dog in this fight, personally, as I stopped using Twitter years ago, but it's going to be very interesting to see how this shakes out. My guess is that it isn't going to go well, but that's only a guess.
- 3cats-in-a-coat 3y ago
  He doesn’t want the old business model, he doesn’t want the old brand, he doesn’t want the old codebase, he doesn’t want the old userbase, he doesn’t want the old offices, he doesn’t want… I mean what does he want? What did he pay 44 billion for? He’s destroying every bit of this company. It’s not that he doesn’t want it. He simply has no clue what he’s doing.
  - JohnFen 3y ago
    He didn't even want Twitter. He paid the 44 billion[1] because he trolled himself into the deal and couldn't get the courts to let him back out. [1] And he didn't pay that -- most of that is owed by Twitter, not him, and it's why Twitter is in such rough financial shape. Servicing that debt requires more money every year than Twitter ever made. Maybe more than Twitter/X will ever make.
    - 3cats-in-a-coat 3y ago
      It's one thing to make an unwanted purchase, but quite another to burn to the ground out of spite. And I believe it's not out of spite. It's hubris and incompetence.