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Re:Twitter alerted employees all office buildings closed and... by pmontra on Thursday November 17, 2022 @11:49PM (#33650498)
If he really wants to do that, by buying Twitter he removed the incumbent and also acquired its users. Much easier than competing and trying to make people switch to a new service.

My unverifiable prediction: no matter how many users will leave Twitter, the ones left will be more than the ones that would be using a new service after 1, 2, 5 years.

Re:Twitter alerted employees all office buildings closed and... by hericium on Friday November 18, 2022 @01:38AM (#33651151)
Users are running away just as employees who weren't fired.
Re:Twitter alerted employees all office buildings closed and... by oneeyedpigeon on Friday November 18, 2022 @02:21AM (#33651424)
He might retain something like a single digit percentage of users, but that would still be a lot more than if he started from scratch.
Re:Twitter alerted employees all office buildings closed and... by truncate on Friday November 18, 2022 @02:46AM (#33651595)
How often websites/apps that were really good at some point, rose back from dead to glory?
Re:Twitter alerted employees all office buildings closed and... by oneeyedpigeon on Friday November 18, 2022 @04:36AM (#33652406)
Well, not often, no. I'm not really expecting that to happen with Twitter, I just think it IS a possibility. How many websites/apps that were as big as Twitter have totally disappeared?
Re:Twitter alerted employees all office buildings closed and... by hericium on Friday November 18, 2022 @05:47AM (#33652918)
GeoCities, Myspace are the two biggest I can think of.
Re:Twitter alerted employees all office buildings closed and... by oneeyedpigeon on Friday November 18, 2022 @08:34AM (#33654366)
I'd argue neither was anywhere near as big as twitter. In terms of users, maybe — I have no idea. But in terms of reach and influence? I don't think so.
Re:Twitter alerted employees all office buildings closed and... by truncate on Friday November 18, 2022 @03:56PM (#33662041)
I think regardless numbers, it is usually a slow burn for situations like these. And probably plenty of people will probably not see a space to fill and try their luck. Hopefully, one of them will work.
Re:Twitter alerted employees all office buildings closed and... by Firmwarrior on Friday November 18, 2022 @07:39AM (#33653750)
Those users are all hardcore addicts whose lives revolve around Twitter. It won't take much to get them crawling back IMO
Re:Twitter alerted employees all office buildings closed and... by raspberry1337 on Friday November 18, 2022 @09:28AM (#33655180)
I take a look at twitter, and there's more activity than ever. Everyone is talking about twitter.

Where will users go - parler?