> Twitter is dead. Elon bought the scraps to short cut early network effective that is impossible to do otherwise.
He didn’t buy the scraps, he bought a whole ass company. Scrapping it happened afterward.
If he were smart he would’ve kept the twitter name going and launched the X “everything platform” alongside using the same accounts like Instagram/Threads. But maybe even put it inside the current twitter app, since they still don’t have any new features to make a separate “everything” app out of. Things disconnected from “tweets” like direct messaging could’ve been immediately reshuffled into being X features.
Repurposing the blue checkmark with preferential tweet promotion could’ve been launched as paid bonus for “X Pro” or something, maybe causing less kerfuffle about charging for twitter.
But that’s just my opinion as someone who bailed on social networks years ago, who knows if it would’ve gone better.
He didn’t buy the scraps, he bought a whole ass company. Scrapping it happened afterward.
If he were smart he would’ve kept the twitter name going and launched the X “everything platform” alongside using the same accounts like Instagram/Threads. But maybe even put it inside the current twitter app, since they still don’t have any new features to make a separate “everything” app out of. Things disconnected from “tweets” like direct messaging could’ve been immediately reshuffled into being X features.
Repurposing the blue checkmark with preferential tweet promotion could’ve been launched as paid bonus for “X Pro” or something, maybe causing less kerfuffle about charging for twitter.
But that’s just my opinion as someone who bailed on social networks years ago, who knows if it would’ve gone better.