Way too soon to declare that Musk was right. I don't even think signs are pointing there. Twitter is bleeding some of its most valuable users, the content creators, to things like Mastodon. There do appear to be cracks happening at the edges. Bots and hate speech do appear to have increased.
Thing is, I think Twitter was bloated and it needed a kick in the rear. Pre-acquisition I heard the same from many I follow. How Musk has gone about it has been the problem. Ignoring his perpetual hates, he had a decent amount of goodwill the day the deal closed. Then, he squandered it with all his antics. A transparent content moderation board turns out to be a game-able Twitter poll. Blue check for all was completely missing any point. No one wants a blue check for money w/o the associated verification. Verification for all would have been awesome.
Ads quality has dropped from what I've seen. It looks like people are pulling out, albeit slowly. MBAs will be studying this, but how things are going means we may look back and see this as Twitters Yahoo/AOL moment when it sells for a few billion in a couple years.
Thing is, I think Twitter was bloated and it needed a kick in the rear. Pre-acquisition I heard the same from many I follow. How Musk has gone about it has been the problem. Ignoring his perpetual hates, he had a decent amount of goodwill the day the deal closed. Then, he squandered it with all his antics. A transparent content moderation board turns out to be a game-able Twitter poll. Blue check for all was completely missing any point. No one wants a blue check for money w/o the associated verification. Verification for all would have been awesome.
Ads quality has dropped from what I've seen. It looks like people are pulling out, albeit slowly. MBAs will be studying this, but how things are going means we may look back and see this as Twitters Yahoo/AOL moment when it sells for a few billion in a couple years.