Elon Musk and the fall of Twitter

[EarnOnVictor]

Well said, my friend, you actually said my mind. Elon Musk thought it was business as usual thinking he can venture into anything and get it done better. Well, the Twitter purchase has put him on the wrong note, even the Tesla shares dropped so significantly. You see, if someone is touching almost everything and such things become successful, they see themselves as one demigod.

But not in all cases, social media is a different space entirely, especially when you are doing things that are anti-social media itself. He thought he can monetize everything better, but it boomerangs.

Actually, Elon Musk has started monetizing Twitter and it's going just fine for him.
A lot of people use Twitter, a lot of people don't know how much Twitter means to them, and I'm not talking of just businesses or companies and so on, I'm talking of common individuals. People who interact and spend time on Twitter. These people might just be seen interacting on Twitter, but they get a lot of updates from the app. News and sports channels report their news on Twitter, and crypto companies and almost every other company drop their updates on Twitter, they even drop links to the full stories.

People can keep up on a particular news update without actually watching the news if they have a reliable source on Twitter. Elon Musk knows this and he knows that there are people that are willing to pay to keep using this service.
Definitely, he will make mistakes, but he will learn from them, and he will get what he wants.

Recently he tried something to see how it will work, I guess he was just testing the waters. He knows what he's doing.

Let me start with the first part of the first line, you must have overrated the leadership of Elon Musk's Twitter, it's as a matter of fact negative on the microblogging app, no wonder people sacked him with a vote. And for the record, there is no time that Twitter wasn't monetized, the only difference now is that Elon wants to monetize it more by forcing some people to pay for the benefits they derived from it despite earning from ads. This, as a matter of fact, is not bad, but his approaches and clear excesses are, and they also annoy people. Has it worked for him, Never! Twitter is retrogressing under him.

I see people beyond what they claim they are and have never hidden my reservation for the guy on this forum. Overbearing people and those with authoritative tendencies are never my thing. People might have preferences on Twitter for some reason, but that doesn't mean people do not have alternatives if he continues to choke them.

Thankfully, Threads is another exact microblogging alternative that is threatening Twitter, and if care is not taken and Musk doesn't apply wisdom, then the impact would be severe.

[BRINIRHA]

Do you think Threads will be a serious competitor of Twitter? People are eager to try new apps but also some old habits don't change easily.
I feel like Twitter was a dying place way before Threads and now they have to compete with them. Maybe the real fight between Musk and Zuckerberg is this one.

At the beginning of its appearance, Threads will definitely attract the interest of many users who want to try it. So to make a more effective assessment, it takes time to wait until the Threads platform is running for at least 1 year. and we'll see if its popularity will continue to stabilize, decrease or continue to increase. After that, we will see whether Threads will be able to compete with Twitter or will it just be an ordinary application that is not very popular.
My guess is that Threads still won't top Twitter. Although the rules on Twitter are getting stricter. But we are used to and comfortable in its use every day. So I think it will take more time for Threads if it is to ever be on par with Twitter. And to be honest I'm still comfortable with Twitter to this day.

[Accardo]

Thankfully, Threads is another exact microblogging alternative that is threatening Twitter, and if care is not taken and Musk doesn't apply wisdom, then the impact would be severe.

It's wrong to acknowledge thread as a treat to twitter because Elon limited daily views for Twitter users. That's the main reason Zuckerberg copied twitter and changed logo and name to thread. He didn't work for it, he stole another person's idea and intellectual property, it doesn't make sense. Most people will run back to twitter after a while of using thread. It'll just get the fame like truth social did when people started opting out of twitter because of the new update. It'll be hard for thread to beat twitter, not now.

[uneng]

Thankfully, Threads is another exact microblogging alternative that is threatening Twitter, and if care is not taken and Musk doesn't apply wisdom, then the impact would be severe.

It's wrong to acknowledge thread as a treat to twitter because Elon limited daily views for Twitter users. That's the main reason Zuckerberg copied twitter and changed logo and name to thread. He didn't work for it, he stole another person's idea and intellectual property, it doesn't make sense. Most people will run back to twitter after a while of using thread. It'll just get the fame like truth social did when people started opting out of twitter because of the new update. It'll be hard for thread to beat twitter, not now.

Zuckerberg's social media is receiving a lot of negative feedbacks from the Twitter's community, because it's being spotted as a "safe area" for the beautiful people from the mainstream media to interact with each other. For common people it's just an artificial environment, which may not have the same toxicity of Twitter, but at same time doesn't offer any encouragement or attractiveness to make them stay there for too long.

I also don't think this new social media, Threads, doesn't have enough potential to beat Twitter.

[freedomgo]

Thankfully, Threads is another exact microblogging alternative that is threatening Twitter, and if care is not taken and Musk doesn't apply wisdom, then the impact would be severe.

It's wrong to acknowledge thread as a treat to twitter because Elon limited daily views for Twitter users. That's the main reason Zuckerberg copied twitter and changed logo and name to thread. He didn't work for it, he stole another person's idea and intellectual property, it doesn't make sense. Most people will run back to twitter after a while of using thread. It'll just get the fame like truth social did when people started opting out of twitter because of the new update. It'll be hard for thread to beat twitter, not now.

Exactly! It doesn't even deserved to be called as the Twitter's competitor just because of it's similarities and that's just unrealistic to think, we all know that Twitter has been in the world for quite some time now and it will turn to its 20th year this 2026. This Thread will not even surpass half of the Twitter's achievements, not even a bit, it's just that people are dying to try what it can do but yes I agree, after a few months, they will all go back to Twitter.

[panganib999]

Well said, my friend, you actually said my mind. Elon Musk thought it was business as usual thinking he can venture into anything and get it done better. Well, the Twitter purchase has put him on the wrong note, even the Tesla shares dropped so significantly. You see, if someone is touching almost everything and such things become successful, they see themselves as one demigod.

But not in all cases, social media is a different space entirely, especially when you are doing things that are anti-social media itself. He thought he can monetize everything better, but it boomerangs.

Actually, Elon Musk has started monetizing Twitter and it's going just fine for him.
A lot of people use Twitter, a lot of people don't know how much Twitter means to them, and I'm not talking of just businesses or companies and so on, I'm talking of common individuals. People who interact and spend time on Twitter. These people might just be seen interacting on Twitter, but they get a lot of updates from the app. News and sports channels report their news on Twitter, and crypto companies and almost every other company drop their updates on Twitter, they even drop links to the full stories.

People can keep up on a particular news update without actually watching the news if they have a reliable source on Twitter. Elon Musk knows this and he knows that there are people that are willing to pay to keep using this service.
Definitely, he will make mistakes, but he will learn from them, and he will get what he wants.

Recently he tried something to see how it will work, I guess he was just testing the waters. He knows what he's doing.

Let me start with the first part of the first line, you must have overrated the leadership of Elon Musk's Twitter, it's as a matter of fact negative on the microblogging app, no wonder people sacked him with a vote. And for the record, there is no time that Twitter wasn't monetized, the only difference now is that Elon wants to monetize it more by forcing some people to pay for the benefits they derived from it despite earning from ads. This, as a matter of fact, is not bad, but his approaches and clear excesses are, and they also annoy people. Has it worked for him, Never! Twitter is retrogressing under him.

I see people beyond what they claim they are and have never hidden my reservation for the guy on this forum. Overbearing people and those with authoritative tendencies are never my thing. People might have preferences on Twitter for some reason, but that doesn't mean people do not have alternatives if he continues to choke them.

Thankfully, Threads is another exact microblogging alternative that is threatening Twitter, and if care is not taken and Musk doesn't apply wisdom, then the impact would be severe.

You know in full honesty twitter could've survived had none of these changes came through. It was a solid app back then that does its things, granted the existence of bots in that app is fucking horrendous but at the same time it's not as bad as it is now. Plus the fact that the very thing he promised he will eradicate (bots on twitter) is still far from becoming a reality even when you purchase those blue fucking checks that costs around 10 dollars in some countries. So basically what this looks like is Elon, having realized that he's in a negative net profit after belligerently buying twitter from its old executives, and then firing them off all at the same time, is trying to break even in profits by making the common people pay for it with those blue checks.

Don't even get me started with his beef against Threads lmao, he literally dug his own grave the moment he dropped essential employees of twitter.

[suzanne5223]

Thankfully, Threads is another exact microblogging alternative that is threatening Twitter, and if care is not taken and Musk doesn't apply wisdom, then the impact would be severe.

It's wrong to acknowledge thread as a treat to twitter because Elon limited daily views for Twitter users. That's the main reason Zuckerberg copied twitter and changed logo and name to thread. He didn't work for it, he stole another person's idea and intellectual property, it doesn't make sense. Most people will run back to twitter after a while of using thread. It'll just get the fame like truth social did when people started opting out of twitter because of the new update. It'll be hard for thread to beat twitter, not now.

Exactly! It doesn't even deserved to be called as the Twitter's competitor just because of it's similarities and that's just unrealistic to think, we all know that Twitter has been in the world for quite some time now and it will turn to its 20th year this 2026. This Thread will not even surpass half of the Twitter's achievements, not even a bit, it's just that people are dying to try what it can do but yes I agree, after a few months, they will all go back to Twitter.

One thing I hate about the internet despite how helpful it was is that people easily buy hype-based news which is mainly to get people's attention towards something that didn't worth it or make them feel a certain thing is a competitor to others.
Apart from Twitter's achievement and long span in the social media business. The threads seem to be created for the designer, engineer, and product manager than being used as social media. Besides, people will have to join the pay plan to have a good user experience on the Threads microblogging website.

[Texac]

Do you think Threads will be a serious competitor of Twitter? People are eager to try new apps but also some old habits don't change easily.
I feel like Twitter was a dying place way before Threads and now they have to compete with them. Maybe the real fight between Musk and Zuckerberg is this one.

At the beginning of its appearance, Threads will definitely attract the interest of many users who want to try it. So to make a more effective assessment, it takes time to wait until the Threads platform is running for at least 1 year. and we'll see if its popularity will continue to stabilize, decrease or continue to increase. After that, we will see whether Threads will be able to compete with Twitter or will it just be an ordinary application that is not very popular.
My guess is that Threads still won't top Twitter. Although the rules on Twitter are getting stricter. But we are used to and comfortable in its use every day. So I think it will take more time for Threads if it is to ever be on par with Twitter. And to be honest I'm still comfortable with Twitter to this day.

Threads hit 70 million users in its short run, but that's just the result of the crowd's curiosity effect and doesn't reflect it better than Elon's social network.  it will be a very interesting contest between two tech billionaires, I have also tried using Threads and really nothing stands out and is more useful than Twitter.  it's too early to say if Threads can surpass Elon's Twitter, yes, we need more time.

[fuguebtc]

Thankfully, Threads is another exact microblogging alternative that is threatening Twitter, and if care is not taken and Musk doesn't apply wisdom, then the impact would be severe.

It's wrong to acknowledge thread as a treat to twitter because Elon limited daily views for Twitter users. That's the main reason Zuckerberg copied twitter and changed logo and name to thread. He didn't work for it, he stole another person's idea and intellectual property, it doesn't make sense. Most people will run back to twitter after a while of using thread. It'll just get the fame like truth social did when people started opting out of twitter because of the new update. It'll be hard for thread to beat twitter, not now.

Exactly! It doesn't even deserved to be called as the Twitter's competitor just because of it's similarities and that's just unrealistic to think, we all know that Twitter has been in the world for quite some time now and it will turn to its 20th year this 2026. This Thread will not even surpass half of the Twitter's achievements, not even a bit, it's just that people are dying to try what it can do but yes I agree, after a few months, they will all go back to Twitter.

Yesterday, I also tried to download and experience the Threads social network, but I had to delete it less than an hour later. It can be said that it has nothing outstanding or superior to Twitter, everything is almost 90% similar. This is actually a duplicate and without any improvements. What's going on is just people's temporary curiosity. I also believe everything will return to normal soon with Twitter, people will remove that terrible Threads app soon.

[JoyMarsha]

Do you think Threads will be a serious competitor of Twitter? People are eager to try new apps but also some old habits don't change easily.
I feel like Twitter was a dying place way before Threads and now they have to compete with them. Maybe the real fight between Musk and Zuckerberg is this one.

Absolutely, this should be one of the real fights that Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg are planning. The fight will be about who controls and is more influential than the others in the social media world.  Threads upon against Twitter.

The primary Twitter rival at the moment is Thread. It already has millions of users who have registered. That ought to be a good indication that Twitter should be aware that a formidable rival has challenged her and has the advantage of operating without fees in comparison to her. Even yet, it will take some time for Thread to catch up to Twitter. But We'll bet to wait and watch if Threads becomes more popular than Twitter in the coming years.

[jossiel]

Do you think Threads will be a serious competitor of Twitter? People are eager to try new apps but also some old habits don't change easily.
I feel like Twitter was a dying place way before Threads and now they have to compete with them.

I think so.

But not until Twitter has got something to show and offer to its users. I've got a lot of my friends on my socials that did tried as soon as the announcement of Threads came.

Anyway, not me. I'm not into it and I'm too lazy to make new socials just as Threads. I do see the new opportunity for being one of the early sign ups there but just too lazy about it.

Maybe the real fight between Musk and Zuckerberg is this one.

Honestly, I think that they're capitalizing their bout into introduction for something like this and Mark did already done his counterpart. Maybe Elon has got one too but who knows.

[romero121]

Do you think Threads will be a serious competitor of Twitter? People are eager to try new apps but also some old habits don't change easily.
I feel like Twitter was a dying place way before Threads and now they have to compete with them. Maybe the real fight between Musk and Zuckerberg is this one.

Absolutely, this should be one of the real fights that Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg are planning. The fight will be about who controls and is more influential than the others in the social media world.  Threads upon against Twitter.

The primary Twitter rival at the moment is Thread. It already has millions of users who have registered. That ought to be a good indication that Twitter should be aware that a formidable rival has challenged her and has the advantage of operating without fees in comparison to her. Even yet, it will take some time for Thread to catch up to Twitter. But We'll bet to wait and watch if Threads becomes more popular than Twitter in the coming years.

Threads is real competence to Twitter. Meta could've made plans about threads long back and kept it confidential. All of the sudden launched threads, if this had been revealed earlier Elon Musk might've worked on some changes. Anyhow the real competence is here. Twitter have got more than a billion users whereas threads have reached more than 50 million users within the few days of its launch. Lets see how good things were happening with these two. The premium that needs to be paid for Twitter and other paid services will have some cut in the price in the upcoming months so to keep its users than moving to the threads with more features.

[mich]

Well now Threads just reached 100 Million users. It took only 5 days for this very big number to pass. And still it is not available in Europe. 

This is compared to ChatGPT that took 2 months for 100 Million users. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-12282593/Metas-Twitter-killer-app-Threads-passes-100million-users-five-days.html

[Inspiron14]

Do you think Threads will be a serious competitor of Twitter? People are eager to try new apps but also some old habits don't change easily.
I feel like Twitter was a dying place way before Threads and now they have to compete with them. Maybe the real fight between Musk and Zuckerberg is this one.

Absolutely, this should be one of the real fights that Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg are planning. The fight will be about who controls and is more influential than the others in the social media world.  Threads upon against Twitter.

The primary Twitter rival at the moment is Thread. It already has millions of users who have registered. That ought to be a good indication that Twitter should be aware that a formidable rival has challenged her and has the advantage of operating without fees in comparison to her. Even yet, it will take some time for Thread to catch up to Twitter. But We'll bet to wait and watch if Threads becomes more popular than Twitter in the coming years.

Threads is real competence to Twitter. Meta could've made plans about threads long back and kept it confidential. All of the sudden launched threads, if this had been revealed earlier Elon Musk might've worked on some changes. Anyhow the real competence is here. Twitter have got more than a billion users whereas threads have reached more than 50 million users within the few days of its launch. Lets see how good things were happening with these two. The premium that needs to be paid for Twitter and other paid services will have some cut in the price in the upcoming months so to keep its users than moving to the threads with more features.

With this competition, of course, this becomes even more interesting and maybe it will make Twitter discourage its intention regarding the policy of restrictions in a number of ways,
but it must also be admitted that Threads is truly amazing the number of users is so large and Threads can reach it in just a few days from its launch,
hope there will be a breakthrough from each of these applications.

[irhact]

Threads hit 70 million users in its short run, but that's just the result of the crowd's curiosity effect and doesn't reflect it better than Elon's social network.  it will be a very interesting contest between two tech billionaires, I have also tried using Threads and really nothing stands out and is more useful than Twitter.  it's too early to say if Threads can surpass Elon's Twitter, yes, we need more time.

Mark Zuckerberg isn't new to the social media business and although his Platforms has been met with criticism of restricting freedom of speech yet he still gets lots of individual to keep using his platforms. Meta's Facebook is still be used by millions of individual even when it's kind of outdated and out of fashion when you compared Facebook to the new social media designs. Instagram is preferably to celebrities and he'll use that to his advantage in promoting thread.

Thread just crossed 100 millions users and this won't have been possible if the platform is worst, curiosity is helping in attracting people to the social platforms and if mark Zuckerberg has captivating features he'll retain users and also attract new registration in the future.

[Marykeller]

Well now Threads just reached 100 Million users. It took only 5 days for this very big number to pass. And still it is not available in Europe.  

This is compared to ChatGPT that took 2 months for 100 Million users. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-12282593/Metas-Twitter-killer-app-Threads-passes-100million-users-five-days.html

I'm not shocked by Thread's 100 million increase in just 5 days. Given that everything in Thread is linked to Instagram when signing up, it will be possible and simple for it to achieve 100 million users within 5 days. 1 billion users can even be possible within a month

Do you think Threads will be a serious competitor of Twitter? People are eager to try new apps but also some old habits don't change easily.
I feel like Twitter was a dying place way before Threads and now they have to compete with them. Maybe the real fight between Musk and Zuckerberg is this one.

I enjoy the competition Thread is holding on Twitter. This kind of competition is used to determine who would lead capitalism. Competition like this will continue to happen from different angles to test who remains on top

THREAD is both a Twitter substitute and a rival at the same time. It may not resemble Twitter perfectly or even be close to it at first, but it is still an option.

Twitter and Thread are two likely social media platforms, but whether they succeed or fail depends on us, the users and supporters, not Mark Zuckerberg or Elon Musk.

We, the users and followers, will decide which eventually fades or increase in momentum on social media. The kind of ecosystem Elon Musk and Mark established, the cruise we all take generates billions of dollars in revenue for them. Although We don't envy their extraordinary intelligence. Elon Musk shouldn't rely on Social Media investment to remain on top of the richest human list without challenge.

[NotATether]

We, the users and followers, will decide which eventually fades or increase in momentum on social media. The kind of ecosystem Elon Musk and Mark established, the cruise we all take generates billions of dollars in revenue for them. Although We don't envy their extraordinary intelligence. Elon Musk shouldn't rely on Social Media investment to remain on top of the richest human list without challenge.

Mark Zuckerberg is not on the dick-measuring contest that is the Richest Person rank (top 2), so it does not make any sense to phrase it from that perspective. This is more of two platforms and their CEOs locking horns with each other [no seriously, what is Elon's job title at Twitter at this point?] and we can also expect Elon to order new features to be rolled out on Twitter in response to Threads adding more stuff.

[BRINIRHA]

Thankfully, Threads is another exact microblogging alternative that is threatening Twitter, and if care is not taken and Musk doesn't apply wisdom, then the impact would be severe.

It's wrong to acknowledge thread as a treat to twitter because Elon limited daily views for Twitter users. That's the main reason Zuckerberg copied twitter and changed logo and name to thread. He didn't work for it, he stole another person's idea and intellectual property, it doesn't make sense. Most people will run back to twitter after a while of using thread. It'll just get the fame like truth social did when people started opting out of twitter because of the new update. It'll be hard for thread to beat twitter, not now.

I also don't think that Threads will ever be able to rival Twitter. Maybe the wave of curiosity of people who want to try Threads at this time is quite a lot. But yeah this won't last long. Because when people have finished trying, they will definitely leave. unless they find comfort in using those Threads. Because I personally also just want to try Threads to satisfy my curiosity. But if the Threads platform offers usability that Twitter doesn't then maybe Threads can compete with Twitter. but if there is no significant difference then it will not be too strong to compete with Twitter which already has a lot of users.

[leonair]

We, the users and followers, will decide which eventually fades or increase in momentum on social media. The kind of ecosystem Elon Musk and Mark established, the cruise we all take generates billions of dollars in revenue for them. Although We don't envy their extraordinary intelligence. Elon Musk shouldn't rely on Social Media investment to remain on top of the richest human list without challenge.

Mark Zuckerberg is not on the dick-measuring contest that is the Richest Person rank (top 2), so it does not make any sense to phrase it from that perspective. This is more of two platforms and their CEOs locking horns with each other [no seriously, what is Elon's job title at Twitter at this point?] and we can also expect Elon to order new features to be rolled out on Twitter in response to Threads adding more stuff.

Twitter's new rules to buy verified batches with money are considered unfair by users, and many have started leaving Twitter for this, and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg took advantage of this opportunity.  Threads as an alternative to Twitter has already been downloaded more than 50 million times from playstore and millions of times for other OS as well.  Mark Zuckerberg thinks they will make it more popular than Twitter and have more market value than Twitter in a very short period of time. Now it remains to be seen what new decisions Elon Musk makes for Twitter's development

[electronicash]

We, the users and followers, will decide which eventually fades or increase in momentum on social media. The kind of ecosystem Elon Musk and Mark established, the cruise we all take generates billions of dollars in revenue for them. Although We don't envy their extraordinary intelligence. Elon Musk shouldn't rely on Social Media investment to remain on top of the richest human list without challenge.

Mark Zuckerberg is not on the dick-measuring contest that is the Richest Person rank (top 2), so it does not make any sense to phrase it from that perspective. This is more of two platforms and their CEOs locking horns with each other [no seriously, what is Elon's job title at Twitter at this point?] and we can also expect Elon to order new features to be rolled out on Twitter in response to Threads adding more stuff.

Twitter's new rules to buy verified batches with money are considered unfair by users, and many have started leaving Twitter for this, and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg took advantage of this opportunity.  Threads as an alternative to Twitter has already been downloaded more than 50 million times from playstore and millions of times for other OS as well.  Mark Zuckerberg thinks they will make it more popular than Twitter and have more market value than Twitter in a very short period of time. Now it remains to be seen what new decisions Elon Musk makes for Twitter's development

if Elon was a friend of Epstein he might just have a huge dick. seem not.

if politicians like Trump get censored in Threads, people i think will still choose Twitter. its the reason why Elon bought Twitter, it's for his political games while in Threads, there are only kids there who used to be on Instagram that already lost in the game by Tiktok. twitter though was in decline so there will be a competition between those 2 apps.