Posted on 11/06/2022 7:09:28 AM PST by DoodleBob
This is likely also why FR has been in business for 20+ years.
It takes a lot of time for a platform to lose its user base.
FR has been working on chasing it away for a long time now and has lost much of what it once had. I don’t say that with any glee...I find it extremely unfortunate.
FR steadfastly refused to keep up with the times and add much needed features. Misguided moderation policies have turned the breaking news into something completely useless. Cantankerous old farts who have zero clue have chased away people who wanted to contribute to the site. Some users who were very generous with their time curating the news have either died or been chased away for various reasons.
If you want to kill a platform, that’s the way to do it. What Musk is doing isn’t going to kill anything. In fact, I see it as building something much bigger than Twitter ever would have been without him.
Aren’t you so full of yourself.
Bkmk
I don’t know...if that’s what the guy does, that’s what the guy does, no?
It’s like starting the “Kool Kids Klub” in high school then wondering why you’re the only member.
Musk will end up with a smaller but higher quality platform that will cost much less to run and which will be profitable.
It’s like starting the “Kool Kids Klub” in high school then wondering why you’re the only member.
Musk will end up with a smaller but higher quality platform that will cost much less to run and which will be profitable.
I just signed up for Twitter for the first time
Most of Twitter usage bleeding is bot loss. Ignore it. It never had anything to do with revenue, except for those advertisers who were stupid enough to believe Tw execs.
Twiw was a paid propaganda machine.
We’ll be friends till we’re old and senile then we’ll be new friends.
People don’t realize that the important part of Big Tech is not “Tech”, but “Big”. Some here used to say conservatives need to start our own site — but that’s not the point. President Trump is a case in point. 4million followers at Truth Social is not the same as 80 or 100 million at Twitter. The “Big” is what’s important, not “Tech”. It’s the neutral or semi-neutral audience that may be converted is the important part, not your loyalists. You can start an even better site, but the neutrals will not go with you. There is “neutral inertia”. That’s why Rumble, Truth, Gab, Parler — none of these will work like their Big Tech counterpart. We have to change YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, etc. It seems impossible, but starting a different site is definitely not going to work. And if you don’t think it’s important — why do you hear such howls about Twitter from the Left? They realize how important it is.
And unnecessary. The study Casey ran was MUCH more compelling, answered questions, and authentic.
It's still a good article. But I'm deduction points for technique.
Does anyone else find it ironic that “ I’ve seen much of Academic Twitter coordinating a move to Mastodon.”
Mastodon: belonging to the extinct genus Mammut. Mastodons lived in herds and fed on plants.
Mrs DoodleBob and I are looking forward to that senile “first date” in our 90s.
The far left loons hating on Musk are resting g most of their ire on a foundational lie. They are pretending that the site will become a vile pit of profanity and racist propaganda if their enemies are no longer censored. Of course, Musk can moderate the discourse to prevent Illegal content without censoring Republican voters, which he’s going to do.
He’s just being a businessman at this point though. There aren’t enough purple haired non binary zoomers and blue check hall monitors out there to form the customer base for a viable business.
It’s like a janitor calling himself a custodial engineer.
Just like liberal “herdthink” and “My veganism is the only way” are going the way of the mastodon. I say good riddance to the cruel little dictators that infest what should be a “freedom to share ideas” media site. The worst part is, and always has been, the leftists refusal to let anyone else share ideas freely. “The only way to make a bad idea seem like a good idea is to silence the good idea that shows just how bad the bad idea really is”....L.Star
Why do you automatically accept the writer’s analysis?
Everyone is replaceable. That lesson alone is paramount.
Or ….? Is the argument/contention that Twitter is (was LOL) the exception to the rule?
The world’s Maoists have declared jihad on Twitter. I wonder if Musk will come to regret his purchase...like I came to regret having bought Beta.
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