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Re:Twitter board adopts poison pill after Musk’s $43B bid to... by root_axis on Friday April 15, 2022 @04:40PM (#31045558)
> what happens when Elon starts his own platform

He wouldn't bother because it'd be a failure. Twitter's tech stack isn't worth 40 billion, Musk could clone twitter for less than $500m, but just having a platform doesn't accomplish much, the overwhelming majority of twitter users have no reason to leave twitter.

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Re:Twitter board adopts poison pill after Musk’s $43B bid to... by Msw242 on Friday April 15, 2022 @11:59PM (#31049337)
Parler didn't fail because it was unable to attract a userbase.
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Re:Twitter board adopts poison pill after Musk’s $43B bid to... by skinnymuch on Saturday April 16, 2022 @01:10AM (#31049676)
Parler failed because it was never actually able to do and be what the incoming user base thought they were promised —- a free, uncensored bastion. Since that would never work at a bigger size with mainstream attention, there’s no real diff. Parler being a grift makes it all muddied any how.
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Re:Twitter board adopts poison pill after Musk’s $43B bid to... by root_axis on Saturday April 16, 2022 @12:54AM (#31049594)
That is why it failed - technical mistakes aside.
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Re:Twitter board adopts poison pill after Musk’s $43B bid to... by aleister_777 on Friday April 15, 2022 @07:57PM (#31047468)
I bet there would be a whole lot of people that would join elon-twitter.
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Re:Twitter board adopts poison pill after Musk’s $43B bid to... by root_axis on Friday April 15, 2022 @09:00PM (#31047974)
They said the same thing about truth social.
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