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Knowing what you know about Elon Musk, why are you still on X? (lemm.ee)

submitted 9 months ago by JimmyBigSausage@lemm.ee to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] JimmyBigSausage@lemm.ee 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Thanks for the reply. Serious question… why has a Twitter/X equivalent not been developed with all of the brilliant-minded people out there, including those laid off by Twitter and other companies? Would it be more about marketing the app?

[–] EnderMB@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It has, but they don't have the users. I think that most social networks are a "right place, right time" phenomena. If Twitter or Instagram were to be released today, with all of its current features, it would probably be DOA.

BlueSky and Mastodon are solid, technically, but neither have cornered a part of the market that speaks to the average person. BlueSky is "we're Twitter, but with no users", and Mastodon solves a problem that few care about.

[–] JimmyBigSausage@lemm.ee 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

So it is marketing. Marketing can be accomplished. Money needs to go into marketing. $$$

[–] EnderMB@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Well, Meta has money, and Threads probably won't last more than a year or two.

[–] JimmyBigSausage@lemm.ee 1 points 9 months ago

True, but one thing different they did was tie it in to Instagram, more info gathering to the same FB/Meta company. Not a stand-alone product by a new company (fresh new thing).