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Even on that theory, _not long term_, because for that sort of thing to work you still have to draw victims in, and breaking it as a social website will tend to discourage that.

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Twitter also doesn't need users to fulfil Musk's goal of destroying a key factor in many (all?) people-powered movements. Occupy Wall Street, Arab Spring, BLM.

And I'm sure that's a factor in why people like Larry Ellison and Saudi princes stumped up some of the money.


The problem is that the media still uses X in it's reporting, and people still use and link to it. If we just stopped using X and stripped it of any legitimacy, it would fall off pretty quickly.

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