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Originally Posted by afc wimbledon
While that is true in a sense the reason they are users is because they like what the existing program does, there's no guarantee they would follow a new different version of Twitter that Musk thinks would be better and to be honest Twitters user base is, by social media standards, tiny, it is barely larger than Pinterest.
If he honestly thought the stack was of 'minimal value' Musk could and should have just written his own stack, started his own new 'just like Twitter only better' app for 'free'
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You are missing the point. It doesn’t matter how good the code is now that the users are there. A product would need to be orders of magnitude better to cause users to move.
The societal inertia of these networks is the value. It could be both true that the code is terrible and that their are millions of daily users. Just having a better product does not mean you will ge worth more or have more users.
Now is murk correct? Probably not but saying the code is what drives value just isn’t true at this point. If it was just code people would already be gone. It’s the difficulty in moving together that creates a barrier to leave.