Bulletins and News Discussion from April 15th to April 21st, 2024 - Between The Darkness And The Dawn, There Rises A Red Star

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JUST IN: Elon Musk confirms X will start charging all new users a 'small fee' before they can post, like, or bookmark.
TSLA stock is down 6% today too
- Critical support for moronic billionaires lighting Saudi PIF money on fire.
- Lol, how to kill your platform in one simple step (step one will surprise you)
  
  still no viable alternatives to Twitter, so I think it's just another straw on the camel's back and not the final one. definitely fucked long-term but the monopoly it possesses will shield it from the natural decay cycle for longer than would be usual in a more genuinely free market situation and its use as a propaganda dissemination device for America will also prop it up
  a website isn't dying when a substantial portion of its activity (and thus profit) comes from people saying that the website is screwed and dead; it's dying when nobody even cares to post that it's dying anymore and are all somewhere else, posting shitty memes or whatever the average person does on social media
  
  what ever happened to bluesky? does anyone actually use that?
  
  Bluesky is currently at 5.3 million users and climbing, while Twitter is at 335 million monthly active users and falling. difficult to extrapolate given that Twitter's userbase has only been falling since 2022 but a back-of-the-envelope calculation assuming a linear downfall says that Twitter will reach 0 users in about 20 years. This almost certainly won't happen; sudden events will probably cause periodic exoduses that then form a positive feedback loop of having less content to look at on Twitter and more content on other websites. My personal inkling is that the crossover point between Twitter and Bluesky will be in 2030, give or take a couple years
  
  I'm just glad I signed up on there early enough to get my first name as a handle. there's like 2 other people in the world who share my name and they got the gmail and twitter username first. and my gmail account is from 2008!
  
  do you have to get invited? how does all that work
  
  nope it's open now, you can just make an account
  
  Threads has 150 million monthly users if Zuck is to be trusted. Probably the bigger threat here
  
  I actually completely forgot about Threads, I hear about it even less than Bluesky despite it having a much larger userbase. Is there a big overlap between them and Twitter's audiences?
  
  I haven't used it at all honestly, I just wanted to see what they're numbers were
  
  threads is the gas leak social network
  
  wow this was a really funny read! thanks for sharing
  
  It still exist and has open registration now, its still small and dominated by libs, i think it will continue growing while twitter slowly dies under musk
  
  I agree and guess it wouldn't die immediatly because of that, but a platform like twitter needs to attract new users constantly (assuming it is still mostly finances vie ads/user data). And putting a paywall to basic functionality that used to be free will deter most from joining. That will lead to decreasing user numbers over time.
  
  :manchild:
- I receive money
  you receive a twitter account
  someone who is good at the economy please help, my website is unprofitable
- and grimes stock is down as well
  
  that was so painful
  
  yeah , but Its like advanced mathmatics , its hard to explaine to serfs , but she has do Algebrah in her head !
  
  You wouldn't happen to have a computer in your pocket that's several million times more powerful than the one used to go to the moon, would you? And several more on stage with you? I know it can legitimately be difficult to multiply or divide by two in front of an audience, but, ah...there ARE things that can do that for you.... I mean hell, one of your big schticks (as shown by the themes of this very performance) is actually worshiping those things, so....
  Not to mention you can and really should just ditch the "math" and do a performance that doesn't depend on it after like the fifth fuck up.
  Very billionaire-white-girl-other-people-do-everything-for-me vibes.

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