Twitter.now is going to make a lot of money for 48 hours and then disappear. I’m sure they are well-intentioned, but creating new silos (even with nostalgic brands) is not what we need. If you want blue in your online social life, Bluesky is the way to go.

@manton

Even if the plan worked and there was one silo again, what would stop the same thing happening again?

Another fact that this ignores is that we already have three large networks with X, Bluesky and Mastodon.

Do they really think they can convince everyone to join their paid solution?

@manton Even if the plan worked and there was one silo again, what would stop the same thing happening again?

Another fact that this ignores is that we already have three large networks with X, Bluesky and Mastodon.

Do they really think they can convince everyone to join their paid solution?

@manton I'm not so sure they're well-intentioned! It looks like a genuine grift to me.

@manton If they wanted to they could have forked Bluesky, put the original branding on it, and actually offered a useful service

@manton seems they already did, I can’t login or open the app.twitter.now site since a few hours already

@ben That could be true too! I’m assuming the best, but I haven’t actually looked into who is running this.

@manton Heck even W can figure that out