[zaphod420]

People about to learn the power of network effects.

[rootusrootus]

Over the years social media companies learn this lesson as well. Maybe that time is here for Xitter.

[Pxtl]

Even if it is, Musk won. He got his $44 billion value back through getting premium position for all his government-contractor companies by becoming the President's right hand man. This is reflected in his share values climbing.

If this kills Twitter, I think Musk will be annoyed but it's still a net success for him.

[rsynnott]

Don’t assume network effect trumps all else. The annals of the internet are full of dead social networks where the network effect was overwhelmed by operator stupidity (see Friendster, MySpace, Digg, Livejournal, arguably Tumblr).