Elon Musk makes $43 Billion offer for private buyout of Twitter

superchuck500 said
Daily and monthly active user counts are the best metric. With X being private and the company’s public statements being clearly false, we have to rely on sites that track site traffic but I think the picture is clearly that there has been migration away from X. The better question is whether it will continue and to what degree.

The people that don’t like Elon or what X looks like under him have left for the most part. Those who like him or what it looks like under him are happy to be there - but there’s also a portion of users that aren’t that interested one way or the other and just want the content. Whether they get turned off at X or find other reasons to leave is probably where the next phase of migration is. Will it happen to any significant degree or not?

Count me as a user who just wants the content. I'm not really into online politics on Twitter or elsewhere because it has turned into a farce of actual political discussion. I just want sports information, video game information, some funny memes, cool videos, and some news from the few actual news sources left. I don't like the way it has gone and I certainly don't like Musk himself, but then again, I also don't like Jeff Bezos and other multi-billionaires and continue to use their products. And nothing has yet replaced Twitter for that content.

So for Twitter to completely die, it will take a competitor that can match the content.

I get the argument that not using Twitter is the moral choice. At the same point, i think leaving Twitter kind of concedes the field which is never something I have been comfortable with. Sometimes you just have to fight the good fight in their chosen arena. If every sane person left Twitter it would just become a huge echo chamber for insane opinions that are never challenged. That, as much as anything, is the most dangerous part of social media and more or less what happened to Facebook.

On a side note, I saw my first Cyber Truck in person today and it's even uglier and more useless in person than the pictures I've seen online.