X is going to obliterate existing platforms and social media apps.
As polarizing as he can be… I believe Musk/X is going to take down many existing platforms. Who are on the potential hit list?: - Snapchat - Discord - Reddit - TikTok - WhatsApp - YouTube - LinkedIn - Stripe - PayPal - Banks - Tinder I’m not saying that it’s going to happen. Just that, if he really wanted to, he could wipe out these platforms or at least cause them pain and loss of users. He’s already streaming video games. He has news streaming. People uploading videos and pictures. The pre existing infrastructure with his potential to pour money and resources from his other endeavors could completely take over. X is going to take off and hire many more people now that it is getting situated. Is good for us, hopefully it brings some competition to this space and forces the competitors to develop and hire more. What you think? Edit: LinkedIn is on the chopping block Edit edit: it appears that a payments platform is. It out of the picture either Edit edit edit: Tinder and dating apps
There have been "mega apps" that have tried and failed in the past, it's not really a popular thing in the US. Could it happen? Sure. If it's good will I use it? Absolutely. I've been a Twitter user for nearly two decades now, it's exciting!
They’re “popular” when you cannot be a full citizen without an account. Elsewhere people tend to like the idea of not having to have one single point of failure for your whole life.
Ehh? 90% of the internet runs on 3 clouds and a small cluster of dns servers. The Internet is a single point of failure.
Other platforms are going down anyway including X. The effect of X is minimal.
In what universe YouTube is going down? What are you talking about??
You didn't read the report released yesterday.
Lol
That's exactly what his dream is lol. But you cannot just brute force popularity with money alone, see Google Plus. and even if you could, his and Twitter's net worth are miniscule compared to the resources of all the companies you just listed.
X isn't overhyped, cause you're the only idiot that believes this
I’ll have what you’re smoking
Nice try Elon
The only existing platform Musk could take down is X itself. Lol
The trash takes just don't stop coming. Whatever you're smoking must be expensive. Snapchat is still having an identity crisis. Depending on how they play the next couple of years I could see them disappearing, but the app best positioned to nuke them from orbit is TikTok not Twitter. Discord, really? You think X/Twitter is going to spin up a voice chat service that can compete with Discord? Laughable at best, and there's no reason for anyone to try and fight Discord until it runs out of VC money and begins enshittification. Reddit is screwing itself over nicely without any help, but those communities are so hyperspecific and inward focused you'd have a hard time trying to use a crowbar to get people onto a different app or site. If anything Discord is taking over a lot of these smaller communities. TikTok is arguably in the strongest position here, despite issues with various governments giving it the side eye. If you think WhatsApp is going away you must be in the US. Large chunks of the rest of the world use it instead of texting. Its functionality is mirrored by half a dozen apps (Signal, Telegram, etc.) and yet it still remains dominant. YouTube doesn't have any real competition because it would be prohibitively expensive to spin up the necessary infrastructure. Paid alternatives haven't really panned out either. As others have said here, throwing money at it doesn't solve the problem. First mover advantage, network effects, friction with platform migration, and a host of other issues prevent upsets from happening in the space. Anyone who thinks that Musk could, at the drop of a hat, legitimately compete with any of these large players has no understanding of how the market works (except maybe Snapchat, but I don't think Twitter would be the most competitive app to do so).
>Snapchat is still having an identity crisis Agreed, but was surprised to learn that Snapchat has more DAU and paid subscribers than X.
No fcking way.