I think part of the issue is a twitter clone is almost certainly not going to be a home run financially for a Google/Microsoft/Apple. A few hundred million of profit seems to be the ceiling. Presumably it’s hard to build, and it comes with political risk. I would guess these firms only want to dedicate resources to projects that could potentially deliver billions to the bottom line.
Anyone remember Apple’s foray into social media with their music app Ping?
Usenet and IRC are still around.
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Okay, now we are talking…
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1594470952187805696?s=61&t=FkI4heiYjlObpvQu2FCM_Q
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Man this has to hurt Tesla and ultimately threaten his fortune. In any kind of sane world embracing an openly anti-Semitic piece of shit who has been dropped by every other brand is complete suicide. Not to mention, who the fuck is going to advertise on twitter now?
https://twitter.com/SopanDeb/status/1594462258901417986
https://twitter.com/TheNBACentral/status/1594453487873843202
Sketchy stuff
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but why doesn’t Google (or some other tech giant), just make their own twitter competitor.
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First mover advantage and networking effects. Twitter only really works because everyone is on it, and getting everyone to migrate to Mastodon or whatever all at one is extremely difficult. Also, it looks like Twitter wasn’t that viable a business in the first place so I can see why google or apple aren’t hyped to become the next Twitter.
Also it seems like Discord is poised to take a big chunk out of the social media market. I’m only on a few discord channels and they’ve all seen a wave of new users in the last two weeks.
I wonder what happens to Truth Social now that its raison detre is obsolete.
I feel like tons of people absolutely would jump to any kind of viable alternative right now. I certainly would.
Twitters real value is in news aggregation. Basically nobody is going to see Kanye be a Nazi.
Supposedly unlike the others - Griffin’s account was banned and cleaned. She’d have to start all over getting followers.
Thing is it still works reasonably well at news aggregation site even with no one at the helm. If it hits a critical failure, who knows. I can see Mastodon as a viable news aggregator, but man it’s janky af right now.
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The most followed people besides Barack Obama are Justin Bieber, Katy Perry, Rihanna, Lady Gaga etc.
Don’t make the common mistake of assuming that your own priorities are widely shared. Being able to feel that you can talk directly to your idols is one of the big draws of Twitter in my opinion. The millions won’t flock after Nate Silver and Matt Levine.
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It would take almost no effort these people (mostly leftists) to pick a place/follow the leaders to a new place. Obama tweets “its time to move on, follow me at wherever.mastodon” and deletes his account and that’s lights out for Twitter.
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