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What is the Twitter Endgame?

Joshua Austin on February 28, 2023

Disclaimer: This is pure speculation I have no crystal ball, and there's always the possibility Elon's inflated ego could get the best o...
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Nicolas Bailly • Edited

I don't think Elon Musk really has a vision for twitter. He mostly just wanted to fix a couple of things he thought were obviously wrong with it and hopefuly turn it into a profitable company. Time will tell if he succeeds but I think he mostly made sensible decisions while being so obnoxious about it that he (and twitter) suffered an opinion backlash.

What's amusing is that he opened the way for other companies to make the exact same decisions without being criticized as much. Like firing 20% of the workforce (which every single large tech company did a few weeks/months after twitter), or making users pay for verified accounts (which meta did a couple of months later).

From a technical perspective though ? I don't think he really cares, and once he moves on to something else it will be back to business as usual.