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Couldn't have picked a better time to come up with an outrageously greedy change to an existing service huh

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[-] combat_brandonism@hexbear.net 75 points 1 year ago

he just told Benjamin Netanyahu

lmao wtf

it's wild too because bot account owners are more likely to pay a small fee than real users. hope he does it that would be the death knell

[-] Ho_Chi_Chungus@hexbear.net 62 points 1 year ago

the last 83 changes musk made to the website have only ever made it worse but this clearly bad 84th idea is going to completely change the platform for the better, trust me guys

[-] JuneFall@hexbear.net 24 points 1 year ago

During discussing twitter in a pub a person was quite angry that I didn't refer to the bird site with the name melon-musk likes so much. The same person sometimes argues that dead naming is not a problem, till the new name is accepted by the state in official registries and the person got an ID with that.

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[-] Aryuproudomenowdaddy@hexbear.net 51 points 1 year ago
[-] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 18 points 1 year ago

He won't do it solely because he is a coward.

[-] Rom@hexbear.net 48 points 1 year ago

Critical support to Comrade Musk in his one man campaign to destroy Twitter.

[-] GaveUp@hexbear.net 34 points 1 year ago

Great Man Theory is real

[-] GeorgeZBush@hexbear.net 19 points 1 year ago

Trust the plan

[-] betelgeuse@hexbear.net 44 points 1 year ago

What if we take the free thing and charge people for it?

sports stadium airhorn blows as I win capitalism

[-] CatoPosting@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago

I mean, it's working for Nestle with water

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[-] WoofWoof91@hexbear.net 44 points 1 year ago
[-] PZK@hexbear.net 40 points 1 year ago

Whatever is necessary to make it die.

[-] RandomVideos@programming.dev 37 points 1 year ago

Elon musk saw how fast the ceo of unity was destroying faster than he could destroy twitter

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[-] GVAGUY3@hexbear.net 37 points 1 year ago

Bluesky really fucked up with the invite only thing.

[-] jack@hexbear.net 21 points 1 year ago

Looks like they'll get another shot

[-] GVAGUY3@hexbear.net 15 points 1 year ago

Threads has the advantage of not being invite only, but Bluesky has the vibe down of pre Musk Twitter

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[-] bigboopballs@hexbear.net 36 points 1 year ago

looking forward to x/twitter going the way of Unity game engine rat-salute-2

[-] TerminalEncounter@hexbear.net 34 points 1 year ago

If everyone quits twitter the bots will leave too.

Musk is 4 parallel universes ahead freedom-and-democracy

[-] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 30 points 1 year ago

I hope this kills twitter, nothing would be lost

[-] DanComrd@hexbear.net 29 points 1 year ago

Please God let Melon kill Twitter lets-fucking-go

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[-] s_v@lemm.ee 25 points 1 year ago

I think it is a splendid idea and I hope he goes through with it

[-] UmbraVivi@hexbear.net 25 points 1 year ago

I bet this isn't even about increasing revenue. He just wants to make sure twitter is exclusively filled with his dick riders

[-] mayo_cider@hexbear.net 23 points 1 year ago

44 billion for a personal ego boost service, billionaires are so smart with money that we should give them more of it

[-] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 25 points 1 year ago

He's one of those Main Character bazingas that thinks anyone who he disagrees with must be a bot/NPC/(nazi slurs here) and he wants a great Fatherland where only the elect may frolic and praise him. cringe

[-] M68040@hexbear.net 24 points 1 year ago

That dumb bimbo had better do it. Take this shit out. End my misery

[-] M68040@hexbear.net 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I am shit faced enough to possess every 9deology and no ideology at the same time. contradictions are a infant's problem to me. alcoholism legend

[-] TalkingCat@lemm.ee 23 points 1 year ago
[-] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 22 points 1 year ago

It'll be so funny!🤞

[-] Teekeeus@hexbear.net 21 points 1 year ago

Please let that site die already

[-] GayTuckerCarlson@hexbear.net 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

100% uncritical support to melon-musk in his protracted war against Twitter users

freedom-and-democracy freedom-and-democracy freedom-and-democracy

[-] ElGosso@hexbear.net 19 points 1 year ago

When one lowtax dies, the universe creates another to restore the balance

[-] keepcarrot@hexbear.net 15 points 1 year ago

Looking back, that guy's name signalled his politics pretty hard

[-] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 11 points 1 year ago
[-] keepcarrot@hexbear.net 11 points 1 year ago

(haha it skipped by me for ages because I'd only ever heard it spoken and it my head it was like "lotacks" or something)

[-] Owl@hexbear.net 18 points 1 year ago

Do they still ban you for linking to your mastodon on that site?

[-] candle_lighter@lemmy.ml 14 points 1 year ago

We make fun of him for every decision he makes with Birdsite but he doesn't stop. Does that means he's winning? (serious question)

[-] CommunistBear@hexbear.net 18 points 1 year ago

I mean he's how many billions of dollars in the hole? That doesn't feel like winning to me

[-] GaveUp@hexbear.net 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

He's one of the world's richest people, ridiculously powerful, controls absurd amounts of high tech real capital assets, and has thousands of followers

He's always been winning doomer

[-] BynarsAreOk@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Winning is silly in this context, but Twitter is not dead or dying anytime soon, I no longer believe this for some time now. It will eventualy die, I recommend reading about "enshittification" starting here The ‘Enshittification’ of TikTok it is an amazing article realy and yes the length is worth it.

IMO the internet is now the same like 3-4 websites and to break this would require a convenient alternative that people can jump to. That Meta clone could have been it but it was "enshittified" by default lol.

Nobody goes from Twitter to Reddit or from there to Facebook etc because these platforms are so old the only new users are people "new" to the market e.g the global south getting first access to internet/social media or literal teenagers.

The point then is IMO Twitter wont die easily because people simply wont move away because there is no alternative.

So TL;DR he is not winning lol but Twitter is not dying anytime soon either despite what we all believed at first.

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[-] usernamesaredifficul@hexbear.net 13 points 1 year ago

what does he have to do to kill twitter

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[-] DickFuckarelli@hexbear.net 11 points 1 year ago

How do we not have an emoji of Palpatine saying "do it" yet?

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