Re:Elon Musk makes $43B unsolicited bid to take Twitter private
by ckastner on Thursday April 14, 2022 @07:34AM
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That's a hand-wavy platitude about the general human condition that has nothing to do with Twitter specifically.
Yes, global communication marches on, but that says nothing about specific platforms. Just look at MySpace.
Re:Elon Musk makes $43B unsolicited bid to take Twitter private
by roenxi on Thursday April 14, 2022 @07:40AM
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The potential value of a communications platform is always handwavy up to the point the revenue is realised. It is well-nigh impossible to forecast what the social media landscape will look like in the medium-long term; especially if someone cares about profit. Twitter has only been experimenting with making money since 2018.
Re:Elon Musk makes $43B unsolicited bid to take Twitter private
by ckastner on Thursday April 14, 2022 @09:45AM
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Twitter had ample time before 2018 to experiment with making money, though. I'm not saying that Twitter should have known how to do that in 2006, but they probably should have by the time they IPO'ed 8 years later, in 2013.
And Glancing over their S-1, they're making money now with the same means that they were planning to in 2013.
Re:Elon Musk makes $43B unsolicited bid to take Twitter private
by SantalBlush on Thursday April 14, 2022 @09:55AM
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So in other words, you don't know either. And that is fine.
How much potential communication was left in the human race have after the first 7,000 years since written script started appearing? The answer is, most potential was still unexplored.
Everything in modern civilisation is still young. Especially new communication platforms.