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		rvz on April 14, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Elon Musk makes $43B unsolicited bid to take Twitt... Good. Twitter is actually dying [0] (and Musk knows it [1]). For its survival it needs to be saved from itself, by taking it private. Well done to Musk for doubling down. [0] https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2021/11/15/2-comparing-... [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30973239

fpo on April 14, 2022 [–]

I don’t understand how [0] suggests Twitter is dying. Is a power law distribution of content production on a social network that strange? What % of HN comments come from the top N accounts? Is Twitter lying about growing user numbers?

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