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Re:Elon Musk's X Backs Down in Brazil by Vespasian on Saturday September 21, 2024 @12:39PM (#41611028)
I rather suspect that he saw bad numbers and didn't get the public support he was expecting/hoping for to challenge the law.

Probably Brazil can live without Twitter better than Twitter without Brazil

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Re:Elon Musk's X Backs Down in Brazil by alephnerd on Saturday September 21, 2024 @02:11PM (#41611631)
> Probably Brazil can live without Twitter better than Twitter without Brazil

Yep.

Meta's WhatsApp is the critical social media app in Brazil (and most large countries excluding US, Canada, China, Thailand, SK, JP, and Vietnam)

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Re:Elon Musk's X Backs Down in Brazil by bdjsiqoocwk on Saturday September 21, 2024 @03:17PM (#41612024)
It's not "critical". If Whatsapp vanished tomorrow it would get replaced by the next one so fast it would make your head spin. Not saying I can guess which one it would be, but one would win and people would carrying on with their lives just fine.
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Re:Elon Musk's X Backs Down in Brazil by vitorgrs on Sunday September 22, 2024 @06:12PM (#41620528)
Hm. Super true, but at the same time, it would annoy a lot of people, and there would be a social pressure to unlock WhatsApp.

That's not the case with X. Isn't like X (or previously Twitter) ever had the amount of users that WhatsApp have in Brazil.

If I recall, X have 20 million monthly active users, and yet it was the 4 or 5 country where X had most users.

But for Brazil size, this is very ridiculous, WhatsApp have 170 million users in Brazil.

This just shows how Twitter/X is small compared to other networks. It was always a small social network with relevant people.

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