Elon Musk’s ‘Twitter/X’ Overcomes Boycotts and the Increased Competition to Soar High and Reach Over Half a Billion Monthly Users
Elon Musk overpaid ($44B) for a troubled platform that seemed past its peak, marred by systemic censorship and an a seemingly endless bot infestation.
As he unveiled his strategy for Twitter 2.0, he was greeted by outrage by globalists and liberals of all stripes, accustomed to a ‘echo chamber’ that disseminated and protected the approved narratives of the powers that be.
Musk’s pledge for freedom of speech was treated as ‘lax moderation standards’, and that generated a boycott of the platform by many advertisers.
And at the beginning of July, Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta launched an imitation (‘alternative’) text-oriented app ‘Threads’, which many saw as the kiss of death to the dreams of the richest man in the world.
