• banneryear1868@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I think it’s overlooked how many people just by default have Twitter on their phone and open it while on the toilet or waiting in line etc. It will essentially fill that need for them outside of anything Musk does short of rendering the service unavailable. Reddit used to be the big one for people who were a bit more tech savvy, even Twitter in it’s inception was full of tech journalists, I think that’s the status they’ve lost over the years. If you’re connected to tech scene in some way Fed is fertile ground.

    • sanpedropeddler@sh.itjust.works
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      1 year ago

      It will essentially fill that need for them outside of anything Musk does short of rendering the service unavailable.

      That honestly wouldn’t surprise me at this point. I can’t imagine advertisers are very happy about his terrible leadership. If he makes a few more blunders I think things could go south pretty fast. Especially with threads being a potential alternative that has a lower barrier to entry than something like mastodon, it would be a smoother transition than it would be otherwise.

      Maybe its just wishful thinking, but I do think the death of twitter is a possibility.