Called it. Elon’s doing exactly what I thought he would do: https://aus.social/@ajsadauskas/109979152813584947
Twitter is dead.
There is no point in trying to hold on to what Twitter used to be. What Twitter used to be no longer exists.
It died the moment Elon walked in the building.
Anything posted there since then has been free content on his everything app and potential crypto scam, X: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/jul/23/twitter-elon-musk-says-he-wants-to-change-companys-bird-logo
I hope the everything app is a big fuckin waste of money and massive failure. Everything apps are an affront to competition and the spirit of the free market, which in turn means they’re terrible for consumers.
Not that the US even seems that interested in competition anymore. We need to demand breakups of monopolies, not cement new ones.
Kind of true, but also exactly what every big companies wants to have. Apple is doing the same thing in their ecosystem and so is Google in theirs, and Meta and Amazon have their on little versions of that too. That’s really the biggest problem here, Apple and Google already own the smartphone. So it’s difficult for a third party App to come in and do significant stuff, as Apple and Google can just reimplement their own version and have their App installed by default, while making life extra hard for third party Apps by breaking APIs or kicking them out of the store. See Apple and their stance on third party Web browser, they are simply not allowed in the store. Or see Meta’s VR effort, which exist for no other reason than them not being able to make significant impact in the smartphone world, so they bet the farm on VR or AR being the next big thing after smartphones, that they still have a chance of owning.