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Twitter is now X as the little blue bird disappears (www.theverge.com)
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[–] wjrii@kbin.social 62 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That's absurd! Assuming 4 billion in actual startup costs, at the purchase price they could only afford to do that for...

four hundred million people. LOL.

Jesus this was a dumb transaction.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Just for perspective, the U.S. population is 300 million. Add on the 67 million population of the UK and you still have plenty of change left over.

Jesus, this was a stupid decision.

[–] wjrii@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago

Yup. Four hundred million is more than the entire daily userbase of twitter.

[–] min_fapper@iusearchlinux.fyi 6 points 1 year ago

Damn, this comment thread was a level of enlightenment I was not expecting this morning 🤯