Such drama! Twitter's not going anywhere.

Twitter will definitely survive. It might be a little rocky for a while, but it will eventually stabilize. It's not going anywhere at all.

Yes, it will survive. Will get to discover how Mr. Musk is going to play with this platform and make it standout. 🙌

Elon Musk is a big drama, a greedy person. He is doing all this to maximize his return on investment. Now Twitter stock price will decline and he will buy a lot, then will increase stock price and will earn huge amount.

I agree with your assessment. Twitter is simply too large to "disappear". Numerous influencers, communities and key players have established ties and amassed influence which can not be easily replaced by migrating on another app.

Perhaps its value will be further diminished in the immediate future, but in the long run, I see twitter surviving this

Everything happening is just to get the world talking

Of course, it will survive. For the time being, its stock price will decline, but eventually, it will rise sharply. In the end, it is all the game of the industry giant.

Twitter will survive because everyone is using it

Since there is still no other social network similar to Twitter, it will survive so far. I see many people moving to Insta or Tumblr, but the atmosphere and the way those networks work are very different. If it doesn't crash like physically, I don't think it'll go anywhere

Change is hard. And when it is happening it is miss-understood and miss-represented. I really do wish Elon the best and I hope that he will succeed in his $44 bln. venture.

as long as "Elon baba" is alive ... twitter will flourish and so will DOGE ... hahahahahaha

Twitter will survive

No doubt, it will survive, and after some rocky / bumpy patches will thrive like never before.

Anybody interested in building a Twitter alternative?

It'll go in the same place as MySpace and Tumblr ... Nowhere

Will not die instantaneously as some are projecting it to. Unless the mercurial CEO decides to kill it himself for some reason. Employees leaving Twitter will not kill it, or any other company. There are thousands of skilled (and average) developers who would rush to join Twitter at the drop of a hat, if and when Twitter hires due to the "mass resignation" of the current employees.

However, it's relevance or USP MIGHT be affected because of decisions like getting verified badges by paying, and the rumored longer character limit. Unless Mr. Musk decides to unroll them.

In any case, Elon Musk seems to be rattled by having to buy it half-heartedly. It seems he was having lots of fun taking digs at Twitter before jokingly throwing a deal at them which he did not expect Twitter to accept. He tried to wriggle out but had to buy. And it turns out to be an expensive buy. Now he has to make drastic, some even bewildering, changes to cut his losses. Can't blame him for it. Or maybe we can :)

P.S. Not a Twitter (or any social media) user, so won't be affected. Just watching things unravel in amusement.

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Our phones should encourage real, human connection. Regular people in day-to-day places (ex: coffee, class, gym, and work) backbone life. So, I think you'll notice social media become increasingly local.

Intentionality drives user-user interaction. Facebook feels like dark waters (DuPont), Instagram is telltale Narcissus story, and Twitter's dreams of itself as a town hall. I'll be watching whether Twitter becomes (i) more transactional in nature (i.e. pay-to-win), then (ii) whether this dampens its open, social prerogatives.

Elon Musk will manage, he's a great entrepreneur!

(And we won't be able to know how, not everyone is a Musk;)

Yeah - they'll do just fine