Twitter users are pining for MySpace after Elon Musk purchase
Twitter users have taken to the platform to pine for now defunct social media platform MySpace in the wake of Elon Musk’s $44 billion purchase of Twitter.
They have expressed their dismay at the deal and the possibility that it will bring with it charges to use the site, and the possible return of controversial accounts to generate traffic.
The purchase has led many users down memory lane, recalling Newscorp’s purchase of MySpace for $580 million in 2005, which prompted an exodus from the platform
Now, Twitter users have been left wondering if the bird app will go the same way after Musk’s billion-dollar purchase.
Although MySpace initially did well after Murdoch’s purchase, users soon began leaving in droves, allowing rival Facebook to overtake the platform as the largest social media platform.
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Users have taken to the platform to lament the sale and pine for older social media, as reports Birmingham Live.
“Well it [Twitter] was fun while it lasted” posted Association Press reporter Juan Lozano on Twitter “See everyone back on Myspace.”
“If Elon Musk buys Twitter, we’re all going back to MySpace, right?” Tweeted TV writer Jose Molina.
Catherine Silverman posted: “Seeing a lot of people panicking about losing twitter who are definitely old enough to have lived through the Great MySpace Migration. How soon we forget!”
Activist Katie Montgomery tweeted a slower end for Twitter, describing it as “limping along” after influential users dessert it.
She wrote: “What I’m feeling for the future of Twitter: There won’t be a mass exodus, it’s just that all the worthwhile people will slowly stop using it, because it’s already borderline unbearable and it’s obviously going to get a fair bit worse, and then it’ll just fade slowly.
“It probably won’t ever die fully, but it’ll devalue and something else will spring up to replace it eventually, and it’ll limp along like Yahoo and MySpace forever.”
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Twitter users are pining for MySpace after Elon Musk purchase
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