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Twitter has a good chance of sliding slowly into irrelevance, like MySpace

Musk has little choice but to hurriedly monetize his new asset, unless he's to pay that debt out of his own pocket

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Tim Culpan | Bloomberg
Elon Musk has good reason to laugh at those naysayers who predicted Twitter would crash as soon as he laid off half its workforce. Without engineers to keep it going, opined the critics, the platform would collapse. Two months later, the social media site is still alive and may have even grown.
 
Its demise, however, is still possible. Not because there’s a lack of talent to catch software bugs or keep the servers running, but because its time may have come. Recent gimmicks include reinstating banned accounts, introducing blue ticks for all,and pseudo-democratic policy decisions. At first glance, none of

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