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by bastardoperator 1522 days ago
I'd argue Trump has more immediate, impressionable supporters than Elon and his twitter like platform is a complete bust. I'd also argue people don't switch, they add. Rarely is someone popular on a single media platform, they tend to use to all of the vertices to engage. There would have to be a value proposition, one that persuades users, the name Elon in my opinion isn't a large enough selling point on it's own.
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memish 1522 days ago
"Trump's fan base are not tech bellwethers, to put it mildly. Elon's are."

https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1507791725410070528

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bastardoperator 1522 days ago
I don't think Elon's fan base are any more capable or driven. I would argue Trump is vastly more popular on social media than Elon and that Trump supporters are at the very least motivated for reasons outside of billionaire worship and straight trolling.
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skinnymuch 1522 days ago
Billionaire worship/trolling vs Blindly following regardless of the amt of double speak, hypocrisy, blindly rejecting things because they are not on your side and following things that go against your best interests + billionaire worship + allowing the amount of grifting that occurs...

The motivation may be different. Is it any better? Or change anything for the better in terms of social media success?

Trump’s popularity may be larger, but it’s also more isolated and siloed. The total possible user base for a social network of almost any billionaire will be larger than Trump’s. Not that most would ever get close to reaching that amount or getting numbers more than Trump. Just that the addressable market is bigger.

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chillwaves 1521 days ago
you are arguing that signing up for twitter (or the equivalent) is some kind of significant barrier to entry?
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skrbjc 1522 days ago
Trump was also kicked off of twitter while being excoriated in the media and then took, what, two years to launch something?

Musk is not nearly as trashed in the media and could leverage promoting an alternative while still on twitter. Obviously there does need to be something that is at least reasonably differentiating from twitter, and I think that is the real challenge as just saying it is twitter but more free is not as tangible.

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