Since his acquisition shenanigans started, I felt like that was like a spoiled billionaire kid who didn’t get the reverence he thought he deserved from a waiter, then proceeded to buy the restauran chain just to close it.
Musk is so addicted to Twitter (or whatever they end up calling it) that he bought it to ensure he would never be banned. So it’s like he bought the restaurant, fired the staff, put shit on the menu, and none of it matters to him because he still gets to sit at his favorite table and no one can tell him to leave.
Well we definitely did that when he entered the story. Not that before Twitter was more than a venom riddled shouting platform but all hope was lost when this conman bought it …
It’s a bit annoying how for so long people agreed that Twitter was basically a hellhole
This was the sentiment on Reddit because it’s an anti-“every other social media” echo chamber, but it definitely wasn’t the overall sentiment of Twitter before Musk took over.
On Twitter, yes. There were tons of people for whom that was their only social media and they thought it was great. Not so much love for the admin as the community of course, and generally people were fine with the software.
If you build it people will complain, and engineers have always complained about the product they own/built. We also tend to lump communities by the worst subset of it’s members. Facebook: racist boomers, Instagram: Fake influencers, Reddit: Angry nerds, 4Chan: Really angry racist nerds. It’s just human nature to focus on the bad in general. Twitter actually used to be widely well received overall (especially when they added in those fact checks that Musk removed). Calling it a “hellhole” is subjective and was not the opinion of the overall population until it actually went to shit, otherwise it wouldn’t have been the preferred platform for many politician and news outlets world-wide.
Woah I never said it was great lol, there is no hidden utopia corner of the internet, I just think calling it widely considered a hellhole is incorrect.
“Quick, our ad revenue is shrinking, what do we do? Restricting people from seeing tweets and defeating the whole purpose of why they’re on the platform didn’t work (yet)!”
“I’ve got it, we get rid of the whole name. From now on companies will say to follow them on X! That won’t lose them any viewership at all!”
“But if they’re going to mention a new name to people anyway, wouldn’t this be the perfect opportunity for them to leave for another platform? All they have to do is say to follow on them Mastodon instead of X”
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