Frost Wolf@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agoAs Twitter destroys its brand by renaming itself X, Mastodon user numbers are again soaring | TechCrunchtechcrunch.comexternal-linkmessage-square6fedilinkarrow-up110arrow-down10file-textcross-posted to: fediverse@lemmy.world
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minus-squareTygr@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 year agoIt’s not the rebrand that’s killing Twitter. Elon is. He’s proving to himself that he cannot, in fact, run Twitter better than the prior owners.
minus-squarehairinmybellybutt@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 year agoI wonder if previous twitter execs are feeling a bit bad to have sold him twitter to see it destroyed like that. I mean it certainly proves Elon is an idiot as he used fraud to manipulate the price and got played instead. But was it worth it to let him destroy Twitter just because he tried to defraud it?
minus-squareflamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoThey got $44 billion, double what sane people thought the company was worth. It would be irresponsible not to take Elon for a ride.
It’s not the rebrand that’s killing Twitter. Elon is. He’s proving to himself that he cannot, in fact, run Twitter better than the prior owners.
I wonder if previous twitter execs are feeling a bit bad to have sold him twitter to see it destroyed like that.
I mean it certainly proves Elon is an idiot as he used fraud to manipulate the price and got played instead.
But was it worth it to let him destroy Twitter just because he tried to defraud it?
They got $44 billion, double what sane people thought the company was worth. It would be irresponsible not to take Elon for a ride.