As Twitter ditches its iconic branding in favor of owner Elon Musk's favorite letter "X," its open source competitor Mastodon is once again seeing usage numbers soar.

It’s not just lemmy that’s benefiting from Elon Musk.

  • Tygr@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    It’s not the rebrand that’s killing Twitter. Elon is. He’s proving to himself that he cannot, in fact, run Twitter better than the prior owners.

    • hairinmybellybutt@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 year ago

      I wonder if previous twitter execs are feeling a bit bad to have sold him twitter to see it destroyed like that.

      I mean it certainly proves Elon is an idiot as he used fraud to manipulate the price and got played instead.

      But was it worth it to let him destroy Twitter just because he tried to defraud it?

      • flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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        1 year ago

        They got $44 billion, double what sane people thought the company was worth. It would be irresponsible not to take Elon for a ride.