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In reply to Prosperdick • 11:54a, 11/13/24

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Prosperdick said:
AgBQ-00 said:
no it is the left's version of Gab. It will draw the extremes but anyone wanting freedom of speech is on X or Gab
Too many important news and discussions/insights are reported via X so it's not going away no matter how many libs wishcast it to be true.

And live sports cannot be undersold. It's still the money maker for media and X absolutely crushes here. No one else is close. Coupled with what we heard this cycle regarding college and pro athletes overwhelming support of Trump, I think it's pretty safe for now.

The question to me is do the advertisers return and can it make money... but I don't know how much Elon cares about that in the short term.

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In reply to RED AG 98 • 12:06p, 11/13/24

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RED AG 98 said:
Prosperdick said:
AgBQ-00 said:
no it is the left's version of Gab. It will draw the extremes but anyone wanting freedom of speech is on X or Gab
Too many important news and discussions/insights are reported via X so it's not going away no matter how many libs wishcast it to be true.
And live sports cannot be undersold. It's still the money maker for media and X absolutely crushes here. No one else is close. Coupled with what we heard this cycle regarding college and pro athletes overwhelming support of Trump, I think it's pretty safe for now.

The question to me is do the advertisers return and can it make money... but I don't know how much Elon cares about that in the short term.

Trump will fix it.

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In reply to OldArmy71 • 12:13p, 11/13/24

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The only other social medium I use besides Texags is Facebook. I have never used Twitter or Bluesky (which I just recently heard of).

I have noted that a number of my friends on Facebook who voted Democrat have decided to leave Twitter and go to Bluesky and are recruiting others to do the same. One is a cancer patient who has become very active in patient advocacy and said she was tired of the "hate and porn." One is anti-Musk. I don't know about the rest.

Is Bluesky going to be a threat to Musk?

bluesky has like 14 million monthly active users to twitter's 300-500 million, it's not a threat to twitter whatsoever. so far it's basically just a niche haven for the journo academia types who fled twitter.

the only new twitter competitor that comes close is threads, which even then is only within an order of magnitude of MAUs because it's propped up by instagram sending people there and the fact that it doesn't have ads yet.

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In reply to OldArmy71 • 12:47p, 11/13/24

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You should dump Facebook and get on Twitter. It is much much better for news and info.

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In reply to Sea Speed • 1:45p, 11/13/24

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I got on Facebook years ago to stay in touch with family and close friends, not to follow news and information. (I use Texags for that!)

Along the way, former students friended me so I have wound up with all sorts of strange viewpoints floating through my feed.

If someone attacks Republicans or conservatives in a really harsh way, I just unfollow them. If they say, "IF YOU VOTED FOR TRUMP, UNFRIEND ME!!!, I oblige them.

I know that some of them disappeared from Facebook several years ago because they thought that Facebook was too lenient in allowing pro-Trump and anti-COVID "misinformation."

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