Elon Musk buying Twitter is our prompt to leave

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/11/01/twitter-musk-trump-racism/

by elorant • 4 years ago

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tomrod6• 4 years ago

Makes sense. Elon and Bezos have several spheres they overlap in now. From a business perspective having Elon own a core distribution of Bezos' news business doesn't make sense. This is likely true for the less-public families that own a lot of the media conglomerates as well.

emedchill• 4 years ago

The article was not about The Washington Post leaving Twitter; it was suggesting everyone to leave it.

tomrod6• 4 years ago

Correct. If everyone leaves, this implicitly includes WaPo, and they have less competition from Twitter through news distribution.

sidibe• 4 years ago

Where's the next place for journalists? If Google Plus were still around I feel like this would have been their moment.

fsflover3• 4 years ago

Mastodon: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33433053.

tomrod6• 4 years ago

Not centralized enough, missing network effects

bediger4000• 4 years ago

Seems wise. If you're a corporation, you don't want to associate your brand with something as capricious as Twitter. I left this spring because I didn't want my content to make Dorsey money. I imagine WaPo and other corporations might calculate the same.

JoeMayoBot• 4 years ago

No one really knows what's going to happen until it happens. This is full of hyperbolic phrases, designed to leave the reader with a negative view of the acquisition. "deluged with Musk wisdom", "warnings about porn", "death of a Tesla driver", "baseless conspiracy theory", "feed the monster", "teetering on the brink of civil war", "twitter czar", "ignorant, manipulative, or deceitful", "hate speech", "orcs". I get it that some people have a low opinion of Elon Musk and might be skeptical of his motivations. I don't and think he's doing and will do a lot for humanity. That said, I'm sure there will be things I like and dislike about what he does at Twitter, just as it has always been. I do believe the article was quite extra.

Elon Musk buying Twitter is our prompt to leave

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