With the past ten days focused on Elon Musk and his nature of wanting to 'fix' Twitter.....I've come back to what made me leave Twitter:
1. Twitter came out of a 'pit' of nothing and was more or less the replacement for newspapers.
An essayist could thrive by writing editorials on his own....without being obliged or 'owned' by some news group.
In simple terms, we got fresh new prospectives (something that network TV or news magazines could not deliver).
At some point around 2016.....some folks who ran Twitter suddenly grasped that this prospective thing was now using conservative chatter. That had to be fixed, and for four years.....week after week.....whatever had been gain prior to 2016...was now lost.
2. Twitter employees felt it was their little world....their creation, and that their ideals of content....was stronger than allowing things to progress on their own.
Twitter prior to 2016? It was a open 'field'. Anyone could talk with like-minded people....from Barbados....to Estonia.
Twitter after 2016? It was locked down, and really being geared to like-minded people who were Twitter-like.
3. Twitter became by 2016.....highly politicized. If you measured things today? It's probably doubled on political intensity. It's loaded with propaganda....some openly pumped out and sanctioned by Twitter management.
You have to be vigilant on a daily basis....if you are to use Twitter in this period of time.
How I see Musk?
I think Musk sees Twitter as a 'candy-store' that the adult leadership has left the store, and left it to 12-year-old kids to run. I believe he's going to enter the 'candy-store', and will either fire the juvenile kids....or in the literal sense....burn the 'candy-store' to the ground.
I don't think the juveniles in charge really grasp how far in the corner that they've been pushed, and that the bulk of Twitter remaining content-writers/participants.....aren't that thrilled about their way of running things.
Finally, for a stock holding a value of $46 a share.....it pays zero dividends. It's a crappy stock and from any investment portfolio......I'd gauge it as a 'garbage-stock'. This begs the question....isn't it time that they pack up and leave California.....get a profit plan in their mind.....pay the stock-holders, and show something (anything)?
I think this Musk plan will eventually open up and shock the current crowd.....by moving the whole operation to Texas, with a signal to California....that it is part of the problem with Twitter as well.
Note: I am also a impowered Twitter stock owner (50-odd shares), and hold it more to vote in their shareholder meetings....than to have anything paying me real profits.
