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it's worth less than half of what he paid for it, lost 30 million users and went from being the default microblog to facing real competition in daily active use
by reverendsteveii 1y ago
it's worth less than half of what he paid for it, lost 30 million users and went from being the default microblog to facing real competition in daily active users from ~~bluesky~~threads (https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/07/threads-is-nearing-xs-daily-app-users-new-data-shows/ https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/07/threads-is-nearing-xs-dail...). Building what X is today from nothing would be an incredible accomplishment but building what X is today out of what Twitter was in 2022 is still a pretty miserable failure.
Not to mention that now Grok is just openly white supremacist, calling itself MechaHitler and is flat out accusing Jewish people of wanting to kill white babies (https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/internet/elon-musk-grok-antisemitic-posts-x-rcna217634 https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/internet/elon-musk-grok-antisem...)
- bpodgursky 1y agohttps://bsky.jazco.dev/stats https://bsky.jazco.dev/stats You can judge for yourself whether bluesky is a competitive threat.
- mh- 1y agoThat link errors ("Failed to fetch" banner on the page) for me. Perhaps hugged to death, but I would be interested in the DAUs/MAUs if they're available.
- reverendsteveii 1y agohttps://techcrunch.com/2025/07/07/threads-is-nearing-xs-daily-app-users-new-data-shows/ https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/07/threads-is-nearing-xs-dail... I misremembered an article from yesterday. It's threads that's catching up w twitter.
- SV_BubbleTime 1y agoIt goes up and down. The stats site, not BlueSky, that seems to only go down.
- apwell23 1y agobut thats due to musk poising the platform not due to cutting people.
- mrweasel 1y ago> it's worth less than half of what he paid for it But it was always worth less that half of the purchase price. The Twitter board completely ripped of Musk. Remember that he tried to back out of the deal, arguing that he had been lied to in regards to the number of bots and actual users.
- mvdtnz 1y agoThey ripped him off? He made an unsolicited offer, signed, sealed and delivered.
- reverendsteveii 1y agoWhen you're used to having an entire team of people to act as a buffer between your impulses and their easily predictable consequences following through on your commitments and getting exactly what you asked for feels unfair.
- miltonlost 1y agoThe Twitter board ripped him off? When he was the one who brought in the initial offer? He tried to back out of the deal once people told him how foolish he is.
- joering2 1y ago> Remember that he tried to back out of the deal, arguing that he had been lied to in regards to the number of bots and actual users. True but since he never provided any hard numbers, especially after totally owning the thing, makes this point moot.
- moomin 1y agoThis argument has been made, at length, in court. It was found wanting.
- AtlanticThird 1y agoGood thing 35% of the country still trusts the courts https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-joe-biden-courts-americans-trust-1d4d2e22e9699cc09b29ec6ac8f374e7 https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-joe-biden-courts-ame...