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When the shape of the hole changes, people still try to fit the same peg inside of it. I'm not sure why. People resist change I guess. Twitter is dead. Elon bou

When the shape of the hole changes, people still try to fit the same peg inside of it. I'm not sure why. People resist change I guess. Twitter is dead. Elon bought the scraps to short cut early network effective that is impossible to do otherwise. This was the price of admission to a game he is playing against zuck and friends. In 5 years, people won't be asking what do you call a tweet now? Tweets won't even matter. Most people tweet into a black hole. This purchase was about a starting point for a new platform that has more in common with chinese super apps than it does with anything else in the US mobile app market, including the former twitter.

wlesieutre 3y ago
> Twitter is dead. Elon bought the scraps to short cut early network effective that is impossible to do otherwise. He didn’t buy the scraps, he bought a whole ass company. Scrapping it happened afterward. If he were smart he would’ve kept the twitter name going and launched the X “everything platform” alongside using the same accounts like Instagram/Threads. But maybe even put it inside the current twitter app, since they still don’t have any new features to make a separate “everything” app out of. Things disconnected from “tweets” like direct messaging could’ve been immediately reshuffled into being X features. Repurposing the blue checkmark with preferential tweet promotion could’ve been launched as paid bonus for “X Pro” or something, maybe causing less kerfuffle about charging for twitter. But that’s just my opinion as someone who bailed on social networks years ago, who knows if it would’ve gone better.