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The claim is a major departure for the service, which has long been known as a destination for posting short snippets of text.

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[–] Elliott@lemmy.world 18 points 10 months ago (4 children)

I'm still not convinced this wasn't just an effort by Saudi Arabia to dismantle the platform.

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[–] arc@lemm.ee 18 points 10 months ago (1 children)

A few months back and he was driving his employees to produce banking apps and god knows what else. I wonder what they think of their mercurial asshole boss who'll demand everything all at once.

[–] fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works 12 points 10 months ago

It's "just" programming, how hard are can it be the program the app that does everything? /s

[–] neidu2@feddit.nl 17 points 10 months ago

"Pivot to video" - How many popular sites turned to shit and died 15 years ago.

[–] Chessmasterrex@lemmy.world 15 points 10 months ago

It's not a video service, it's a pile of poo.

[–] cley_faye@lemmy.world 15 points 10 months ago

There sure is a lots of video with young looking girls on there, but I'm not sure why anyone would be advertising that.

[–] ech@lemm.ee 14 points 10 months ago (7 children)

Something that I feel needs to be reiterated with all of these "news" pieces - the "71% drop" everyone is touting is from the stupidly high price Musk bought Twitter for that only ever represented his desire to flex, not the value held by the site itself. Even Musk knew it wasn't worth that much and tried desperately to get out of the deal himself.

[–] Clent@lemmy.world 12 points 10 months ago (11 children)

Twitter was trading around $40 at the time he made the offer for $54 per share. At the current value, that equals $15 per share. The last time Twitter was trading at that value was 2017.

These are all rough numbers based on some graphs I looked over quickly.

If you want to play devils advocate on this topic you should understand what you're talking about.

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[–] beebarfbadger@lemmy.world 14 points 10 months ago

X, the platform formerly known as twitter, is now dealing in sour grapes.

[–] badbytes@lemmy.world 13 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Elon, put down the crack pipe.

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[–] RandomVideos@programming.dev 13 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] n3m37h@sh.itjust.works 12 points 10 months ago (2 children)
[–] HawlSera@lemm.ee 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Honestly if Elon The Musky Husky wanted to rebrand twitter as a competitor to Youtube, there's a 10% chance I might start using the platform, which is 10% more than usual.

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[–] Bigoldmustard@lemmy.zip 9 points 10 months ago (2 children)

It’s really wild to go from real life, where I don’t know anyone who uses twitter, to online where people are very interested in what’s happening to it.

Do these people not know a ton of viewership for news shows is that the channel is just on? Who’s gonna go to twitter and watch Don Lemon talk about stuff if they have to seek it out? Maybe they think it’s a built-in audience because people are there so surely they’ll watch?

Basically it’s content that expires quickly that isn’t “just on” anywhere. I’m no genius but I wouldn’t count on it working.

[–] Evotech@lemmy.world 14 points 10 months ago (2 children)

In Norway less people use Twitter then fucking teletext

Yet it's in the media all the time

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[–] fidodo@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Twitter is shoved down our throats because every time you go to a news site they embed it into their articles. Twitter is a success because journalists are addicted to it despite constantly complaining about how shitty it is.

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