Silicon Valley could well be built on the principle of scrapping principles. Now Elon Musk, perhaps the ultimate tech bro, is shredding another well-regarded convention with an original business strategy. Generally, in business, it is sensible to provide your customers with what they want. With Twitter, the meme-makers' favourite billionaire
  • Gorroth@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    ChatGPT kindly summarized it:

    Elon Musk is challenging conventional business practices with a unique strategy for his tech ventures. Mark Zuckerberg, inspired by Musk’s tactics, created Threads, a potential rival to Twitter. However, Threads’ user experience is disappointing, as it lacks control over followers and displays a non-chronological timeline. Despite its flaws, Threads may succeed due to its appeal to brands and the AdTech industry for data collection and marketing purposes. While not user-friendly, it could still become profitable through data scraping and advertising.

    • Little1Lost@feddit.deEnglish
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      1 year ago

      i would say, yes, that is a good summary about the topic WITHOUT why the stuff turns out that way. For people wanting the “why” too i suggest reading the article