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Elon Musk admits X 'may fail, as so many have predicted' (www.businessinsider.com)

submitted 1 year ago by gsa4555@lemm.ee to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] popemichael@lemmy.sdf.org 79 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Once it fails then someone will buy it cheap and rename it twitter.

[–] Da_Boom@iusearchlinux.fyi 20 points 1 year ago

If there's anything left to buy aside from tacky merch shirts. I'm sure the creditors will pick it clean and auction off the best bits to the highest bidder.

[–] Hiccup@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Maybe, or maybe it'll be another Bebo level disaster.

[–] geno@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

...I guess it was indeed a disaster because I can't remember even hearing that name before.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bebo

originally operated from 2005 until its bankruptcy in 2013

It was announced in January 2021 that it would be returning as a new social media site the month after. By May 2022, it had once again been shut down, without having ever left beta testing.

[–] MajorHavoc@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Bingo.

And since won't get back all the staff he dismissed; they're going to have to just slap the Twitter brand on a Mastodon instance.