Re:Musk announces funding secured for Twitter buy
by bombcar on Thursday April 21, 2022 @11:53AM
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Over the next week, mark down every time you see the following news:
1. News such as an HN post which is a ... twitter link
2. News in an article or on TV that reverences a ... twitter link
3. Social media referencing a ... twitter link
There's a lot more than appears at first, even if you aren't consuming news on Twitter or Tik Tok a lot of it is being broken there.
Re:Musk announces funding secured for Twitter buy
by boringg on Thursday April 21, 2022 @12:00PM
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This is what I was referring to. Sure there are infinite other sites but Twitter is where it is being broken and where majority of all the journalists live. It is currently the site with status and clout for important news. Will that change? Always possible but it is the site du jour.
Re:Musk announces funding secured for Twitter buy
by rstupek on Thursday April 21, 2022 @12:41PM
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It's also the site for the unimportant news that journalists decide to transform into "important" news. Too many "click bait" news stories end up being "xxx is outraged" and the story links to 3-4 random twitter comments
Re:Musk announces funding secured for Twitter buy
by mbostleman on Thursday April 21, 2022 @12:29PM
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Ok gotcha. So largest by volume of breaking stories used as opposed to users.
Re:Musk announces funding secured for Twitter buy
by aNoob7000 on Thursday April 21, 2022 @11:49AM
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Yes, social media has become toxic but a lot of people use it to get their news and information.
Twitter is a great way for Musk to get into social media without having to get users and build the infrastructure. He can compete at a worldwide level with Facebook on day one.
That's not really true is it? My understanding is that it's actually the smallest of its immediate peers in social media. And perhaps the same in the field of the broader definition of media.
As a separate issue, my personal sentiment on social media, like a number of others I know, is that it has all become a steaming pile of toxic garbage, not unlike the pile of junk mail I dutifully retrieve from my physical mailbox once a month (and even then only so that the mail person has room to add more). My concern on a deal like this is that if that sentiment takes off in the mainstream a property like Twitter could experience a MySpace style collapse overnight.