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by nullserver 811 days ago
Twitter is doing fantastic.

Just because people want to go back to more censorship doesn’t mean Twitter is dying.

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> Twitter is doing fantastic.

Reported yesterday [0] that it’s worth 73% less than when elon took over.

You absolutely may have a different definition of fantastic but what was once one of the largest social sites losing 3/4 of its value in 15 months is significant.

aside from actual financial analysts, my own personal anecdata has pretty much mirrored their analysis. i’ve gone back and gave it an honest try like 4 or 5 times and each time has been worse than the previous. it just reinforced why i (and more and more people) choose to spend our time in other places.

[0] https://fortune.com/2024/03/30/fidelity-x-stake-73-decline-s...

Just gotta say that both things can be true.

Investment banks can find it worth less than it was from a return on stock financial view,

and millions of users can find it a fantastic messaging portal,

and individual people may not like aspects of the portal.

"was once one of the largest social sites" - I feel that X is still one of the largest social sites wordlwide and especially in the US.. Priori Data has them in the top 12 of the world at 600 million users 6 days ago.

(https://prioridata.com/data/social-media-usage/ )