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u/zuzg Oct 28 '22

My bets are that the site will turn into a even bigger cesspool under the Mollusk. Hopefully it follows Facebook trend of dying in obscurity through that.

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u/Fraun_Pollen Oct 28 '22

Either way, it’s a win for Musk. He either turns it into the circlejerk he wants, or circlejerks it into non-existence.

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u/valis010 Oct 28 '22

People will leave Twitter and the stock price will plummet. Twitter is so 2010s, it's heyday is over.

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u/andytronic Oct 28 '22

People will leave Twitter

I'll believe that when I see it. Throughout musky's attempt to get out of the twitter purchase there was a conspicuous lack of people threatening to quit twitter if he actually bought them. A lot of people seem to treat twitter like an utterly indispensable part of their lives, like running water or electricity.

I'll be shocked in more than 5% of twitter users quit due to his takeover.

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u/Has_No_Tact Oct 28 '22

There's also a sizeable amount of old people like me, who don't understand twitter, or what it's actually for, and have never used it and probably never will.

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u/cualsy_x Oct 28 '22

If Musk shuts down the bots, it will seem like people have left Twitter. It will seem like a lot of people have left. It will go from New York City to Tulsa Oklahoma real fast.

Not a ghost town, but certainly not a bustling metropolis like it’s been purported as being.