Will Twitter die before 2025?
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Resolves if regular people can't access Twitter/X as a form of social media anymore before January 1st, 2025. If there's some edge case, I'll resolve this question to what I personally feel is fair.

Decided to make this question after seeing segments of Elon Musk's interview with The New York Times.

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Never saw that segment, did he talk about killing X or the old domain

@VAPOR Mb, I should clarify. I mean if X (I called it Twitter out of instinct) doesn't exist as a company/platform by Jan 1, 2025.

@w4t3rm374n So he was talking about it's precarious future?

@VAPOR Not directly, but he made comments along the lines of "if X fails, blame it on the advertisers", which makes me feel like he's not confident about X's future. Not betting personally on this market though.

@w4t3rm374n he's also big on its value as the global town square though, he'll struggle

@VAPOR X is heavily burdened by debt repayments, and Elon would have to continuously prop it up by selling his Tesla stock. There wasn't a clear path to profit even when the advertising landscape was a lot better for X. When prompted with the fact that he could keep it going with his personal resources, he said β€œIf the company fails because of an advertiser boycott, it will fail because of an advertiser boycott". He does 100% see social value in X, but I honestly think he's going to stop propping up X at some point to just focus on his more successful ventures. He's currently hemorrhaging money, time, and his personal brand working on X.

I'm actually not sure what probability I would assign to it personally, but I think it's definitely above 20%. Elon is an unpredictable actor, so I'm cautious of assigning too much confidence in my speculation. I'm curious to see how this market turns out.