• TexasDrunk@lemmy.world
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    11 hours ago

    No. He doesn’t need people to keep the platform running. He doesn’t need advertisers. He needs his Russian bots. He needs news organizations to pay attention to the crap going on there. That’s it.

    He’s richer than god and owning the platform is paying dividends.

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      3 hours ago

      He doesn’t need people to keep it running, but the platform is useless without audience to influence.

      All the people who think that celebrities should move out and that they themselves don’t matter if they are on Twitter or not. Musk does not use Twitter to influence celebrities he uses Twitter to influence YOU and people like you.

      Myspace still exists right now, but it is now irrelevant, we should make sure the same is true for Twitter.

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        2 hours ago

        While you’re correct, you’re missing an angle. No news companies report on everything on Myspace. Fox News has the highest viewership. If they report on both everything that happens to Twitter and everything that’s happening on the platform then shitloads of folks are going to hear about it even when we don’t have accounts.

        I know about all kinds of shit on that platform and I no longer have an account.