Twitter “no longer exists” as a company, merges into Musk’s X Corp

Re:Twitter “no longer exists” as a company, merges into Musk... by Laaas on Tuesday April 11, 2023 @01:50PM (#35528605)

If you could get normal people to use it, it would grow. I am not entirely sure what is necessary, but Twitter has/had a lot of small problems (notably scams, which are unfortunately coming back again).

Twitter is a _great_ idea IMHO. It could be _the_ tool to do _any_ communication. It could displace WhatsApp, Telegram, Signal, Messenger, Instagram, Facebook, Substack, Medium, YouTube, etc. etc. A single app where you do everything, and now imagine if you had payments in the app! Musk being Musk, I assume he will support doge first.

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Re:Twitter “no longer exists” as a company, merges into Musk... by smoldesu on Tuesday April 11, 2023 @02:16PM (#35528982)

> Twitter is a _great_ idea IMHO. It could be _the_ tool to do _any_ communication.

I mean, this is where I centrally disagree. Twitter shouldn't be this. It should be a microblogging platform that integrates with the rest of the web, not the revival of Web3.0. You shouldn't trust a business to handle "any communication", which is why FOSS software has dominated all truly secure and worthwhile messaging protocols.

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Re:Twitter “no longer exists” as a company, merges into Musk... by hakfoo on Tuesday April 11, 2023 @09:43PM (#35534046)

It's interesting how we've seen the rise and fall of titan walled gardens from Compuserve to AOL to MySpace to Facebook, and yet on the other side of the world WeChat seems to go from strength to strength.

What's their secret sauce?

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