The claim is a major departure for the service, which has long been known as a destination for posting short snippets of text.

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    “What if we ignored what made our platform successful and instead tried to force our product into a already crowded market?” Elon Musk, Tech genius

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          They have their own content. Decades of content. Zwitter* has…?

          *I am refusing to write that name as only X or Twitter or X/Twitter and writing it XTwitter almost sounds like the German word Zwitter, which is the word for hermaphrodite, and I know someone who owns that platform who would dislike that association…

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        Disney’s not hurting. They just posted bigger profits than ever this past year and expect to exceed that by several billion this year.

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          So higher gross profit but lower net income from last year which is far lower than their net income from 2019 and their highest in 2018.

          They’ve produced ~4 flops last year that cost them almost $1 billion, their stock price hit a 9 year low last year at below $84, Disney + has been operating at a loss since it started. Universal Studios overtook them with box office revenue last year.

          Unless I’m interpreting that incorrectly it would seem that they aren’t doing too well. Correct me if I’m wrong.

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            They aren’t doing as great as they hoped, that’s all. Disney isn’t hurting for money, every day people spend billions in their parks. Yes they aren’t having cinematic triumphs, but that isn’t the only source of their income.

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      If X platform is pivoting towards video’s, shouldn’t XVideos sue X for copyright infringement, like Mr Beasts’s Deez Nuts being to close to another brand’s Dee’s Nuts. Even if they are not the same nor similar product but the fact that there is confusion such as have you seen the X video (Elon site video) vs Xvideo ( +18).

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    Lol, twitter was brilliant when it was 144 character text messages. Then it got ruined by adding photos. Now it is going the rest of the way down the tubes by becoming becoming video first. Ugh.

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      Oh yea back when it needed that limit because the whole point was to text it over SMS and you could post with any SMS capable phone lol

      That was fun and unique, now it’s just…boring? Just another social media site, it’s only defining thing is it’s (declining) size and reach

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        SMS was the original reason, but the side effect of forcing people to condense their thoughts into a couple sentences was pretty wonderful. Especially for an open ended community where anyone can talk about anything.

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          I disagree with you simply because brevity is nice but not at the expense of nuance. Having to try to follow a string of tweets because one simply can’t suffice is awful.

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            I don’t understand the difficulty, the series of tweets are all replies to the previous tweet in the chain. Where’s the difficulty?

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              Likewise I don’t understand the difficulty in reading more than 140 characters.

              But I’ve never used Twitter so when I experience the platform it’s through screen caps of tweets. Instead of having paragraphs and cohesive formatting it reads like a programmer who writes code all in one line. Sure, it can be done and it can be read but it’s fucking awful that it isn’t formatted correctly so that it is more clear.

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                It’s formatted how you’d expect if you’ve a timeline on anything, most recent at the top though, right?

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                  Thats not formatting. That’s like reading a book transcribed on post-it notes and calling it a format. It can be ordered, yes but I’m talking about paragraphs and complete sentences.

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          Wonderful in theory, but in practice it’s a dumpster fire. Quick, mainstreamm-acceptable takes are incentived, and nuanced, alternative viewpoints are nearly impossible.

          If it were all for hobby stuff, it would be fine, but when this is how most people get their news, it’s not good.

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      Hey at least photos worked…

      Video playback doesn’t work half the time, and the other half the time it insists on 140p playback and then freezes.

      They’re doubling down on something they’ve been failing at for years.

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      And with this brilliant move they are going to increase bandwidth and storage expenses. There’s a reason why it’s so hard to compete with YouTube.

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    Of course let’s take a platform that barely holds itself together to show just text and let’s pivot it to be the most technical demanding and expensive kind of service. It will work fine, I’m sure.

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    The only thing worse than its video player are the literal nazis on the site, has he tried watching video there? To call it dogshit would be an insult to dogshit, which can presumably be useful as fertilizer.

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      It’s funny how Tucker Carlson thought he could just do his show on Twitter and basically instantly lost his entire audience.

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      No no no you’ve got it all wrong:

      The Nazis are supposed to be a feature of the platform.

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    I thought Xitter was going to be a bank! Honestly, who can follow the mentally-ill, cocaine-fueled ramblings of this man-baby?

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    How Elon deals with advertising complaints: “Go advertise someplace else.”

    Advertisers:

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    The microblogging platform that once limited posts to 140 characters is now a “video-first” platform?

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      Thing is, it probably won’t. MySpace is still around. LiveJournal is still around. Big social media platforms don’t tend to stop existing. But they do stop being culturally and socially relevant, and that’s what I hope comes sooner rather than later to Twitter: irrelevancy.

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    It’s an interesting claim.

    I don’t think I’ve ever seen a platform struggle more with video than Twitter. Everything looks like it’s using RealPlayer. It’s the only platform where the Japanese wouldn’t have to censor their porn before uploading.

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        And QuickTime. You can still get both of these. I can only imagine they’re visited by people that’ve just come out of a 20 year coma and need something to play their .avi files on…

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        RealPlayer was, and still to this day is, a for-profit product. Somehow. RealNetworks LLC still exists, they apparently now provide “artificial intelligence and computer vision based products” though they still provide subscription-based online entertainment services…presumably for people who set up automatic bill pay then forgot about it for 15 years.

        Also, do you mean DivX, the vaguely obscure MPEG-4-like video codec that some people even used for reasons beyond my understanding, or DIVX, the completely unrelated DVD rental system operated by Circuit City which involved encrypted DVDs with unique barcodes and a special DVD player with a modem in it that would phone home, check if the rental is still valid, and if so get the key needed to play the disc…which is now defunct and all the discs are useless. Because both of those pretty much sucked.

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          presumably for people who set up automatic bill pay then forgot about it for 15 years.

          SHIT!

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          The codec was quite popular for a decent little stretch there… Far more so and for far longer than the circuit city product.

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      I doubt their server infrastructure will hold after all the shenanigans Elmo pulled with it.

      Video streaming is a lot more taxing than text.

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    I never, ever see any actual ads anymore. It’s either some dude with an Indian dude smiling saying “Hello!” or the same exact ass picture from “Hailey201238712985723” or “Jonah9018328412873” advertising the same porn site. No advertiser worth their salt would ever advertise on Elon’s Twitter.