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I agree. Twitter has given me followers and people who I enjoy following that I would never have met in other ways. It's an important part of my political life. But if Elon creates a void, something else will fill it. If it's Mastodon - fine, but it could be something else as yet unknown. It's too valuable a contribution to public life now to be just forgotten and ignored.

A year ago I had not heard of you either, but since then I have learned a lot from you and enjoy the ability to interact, even if it's only briefly. This is the future of connections. Not printed papers.

Elon is making such a hash of all this I can't believe it's not due to a pre-ordained plan. Watch and wait is my plan right now. He has to be up to something. As does Jack Dawsey.

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From the earliest days, Jack and Evan had no idea what they were doing from a business model standpoint. It was obvious back then that a subscription model was the way to go for Twitter to be sustainable but heh - they were addicted to ad sales.

Along the way, they successfully alienated developers who were making Twitter way better than they could have dreamed by cutting off access via essential API’s. Not clever.

Now we have Elon the Man Child who does understand the model but who realises he’s paid at least 2x what Twitter is worth in late 2022.

So now Elon is flailing around and in the process, pissing off the people who could keep it afloat while the business model transitioned. He’s just lost three execs who were calming as buyer nerves. Great move eh?

It’s clear that Elon is out of control so yeah - it’s likely Twitter will die but then it’s ruin was baked in a long time ago.

Fear not though because a better network will emerge. They always do and as we dive into a recession, now is a golden opportunity for such a service to emerge.

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