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Re:Twitter board adopts poison pill after Musk’s $43B bid to... by wyclif on Friday April 15, 2022 @10:16PM (#31048609)
Loads of people said that about Twitter in 2006 when it was a "knock off." It's been proven wrong again and again. And Musk is the kind of guy who can create significantly large network effects and economies of scale.
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Re:Twitter board adopts poison pill after Musk’s $43B bid to... by tehwebguy on Friday April 15, 2022 @10:38PM (#31048789)
Twitter has never been a knockoff experience, it was as different from the social media that succeeded before it as TikTok is from YouTube.

Meanwhile any number of near-exact replicas of it exist with a different flavor: freer speech, paid service, decentralized, specifically for particular political affiliations to name a few. None of them have made a dent.

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Re:Twitter board adopts poison pill after Musk’s $43B bid to... by wyclif on Saturday April 16, 2022 @12:27AM (#31049476)
But that just proves my point: they didn't make a dent because none of them had the network effects and economies of scale that a proposed alternative created by Musk would have.
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Re:Twitter board adopts poison pill after Musk’s $43B bid to... by tehwebguy on Saturday April 16, 2022 @11:35AM (#31053119)
Many founders & VCs have believed this, notable spectacular failures include Vessel & Quibi.

I don’t claim to know exactly what it takes to successfully achieve this but one or even several content / creator verticals won’t cut it IMO.

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