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As Twitter destroys its brand by renaming itself X, Mastodon user numbers are again soaring | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)

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As Twitter ditches its iconic branding in favor of owner Elon Musk's favorite letter "X," its open source competitor Mastodon is once again seeing usage numbers soar.

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[-] Umbra@kbin.social -4 points 1 year ago

Apparently this is all part of some grand master plan. Maybe Elon will pull it off???

[-] FIST_FILLET@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago

name a single grand master plan that elon has ever pulled off

[-] Umbra@kbin.social -3 points 1 year ago

Weren't all his companies successful in the end?

[-] julianh@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago

The companies he took over after they were were founded?

[-] Umbra@kbin.social -3 points 1 year ago

Okay? Taking over a company, growing it, and then selling for huge profit is still good business sense.

[-] AlternatePersonMan@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago

I can't fathom that anybody could be this stupid. Does he have a reason to purposely destroy Twitter?

The decisions he's making aren't just bad, they're the worst possible ones that he could make. As in, he gathered a group of experts and these are the best ways to destroy Twitter that they could think up.

[-] floofloof@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 year ago

Some people are suggesting he ran up so much debt buying Twitter that he's now running it into the ground in order to declare bankruptcy and not have to repay the debt. I don't know how plausible this is.