News Walt Disney World and other major Disney accounts stop posting on social media platform X

Ayla

Ayla

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DisneyCane said:
Whether he is successful or not is TBD in the future but his goal with Twitter X (outside of the "free speech platform" stuff) is to create his "everything app." He wanted Twitter's user base for that. If his vision for that works, Twitter/X will end up much more valuable than what he paid for it and advertising will not be a necessary revenue source.

His vision could also epically fail and the banks that loaned him the money to buy Twitter could end up losing a lot. We'll know in a few years.
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Twitter will never be an 'everything' app. People do not trust Musk, his minions or the site security enough to hand over the amount of private information that would entail.
 
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DisneyCane

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wdwmagic said:
I don't think there is any chance of X becoming an everything app. For that to work, there has to be a massive amount of consumer trust in the platform, which simply is not there with X. I wouldn't trust X for a direct message, never mind banking or anything involving money.
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Ayla said:
Twitter will never be an 'everything' app. People do not trust Musk, his minions or the site security enough to hand over the amount of private information that would entail.
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Some "people" don't trust Musk/X. Other "people" do. If enough people do then it could be successful. I have no idea what the percentages are that fall into each category.

Plenty of people have enough trust to get into a Tesla and not fear that it will not be able to be stopped. In a modern car you are literally trusting the software with your life.
 
Ayla

Ayla

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DisneyCane said:
Some "people" don't trust Musk/X. Other "people" do. If enough people do then it could be successful. I have no idea what the percentages are that fall into each category.

Plenty of people have enough trust to get into a Tesla and not fear that it will not be able to be stopped. In a modern car you are literally trusting the software with your life.
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That's why I drive a Honda. 😎
 
wdwmagic

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DisneyCane said:
Some "people" don't trust Musk/X. Other "people" do. If enough people do then it could be successful. I have no idea what the percentages are that fall into each category.

Plenty of people have enough trust to get into a Tesla and not fear that it will not be able to be stopped. In a modern car you are literally trusting the software with your life.
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By its very nature, an everything app needs nearly complete particpation for it to succeed. Apple is about the only company I can think of that is anywhere close to that. X is near the bottom of my list.

Tesla is very different to X - a public company VS one man's side distraction/hobby. And I would far rather trust a piece of software that follows logic and rules, compared to the actions of a single man behaving erratically.
 
lazyboy97o

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wdwmagic said:
By its very nature, an everything app needs nearly complete particpation for it to succeed. Apple is about the only company I can think of that is anywhere close to that. X is near the bottom of my list.

Tesla is very different to X - a public company VS one man's side distraction/hobby. And I would far rather trust a piece of software that follows logic and rules, compared to the actions of a single man behaving erratically.
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And as much as Tesla has grown in recent years and definitely pushed others to invest more in electric cars, Chevrolet and Ford still sell more Silverado and F-Series pickup trucks than Tesla does of all of their models combined.
 
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DisneyCane

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lazyboy97o said:
And as much as Tesla has grown in recent years and definitely pushed others to invest more in electric cars, Chevrolet and Ford still sell more Silverado and F-Series pickup trucks than Tesla does of all of their models combined.
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What Tesla did was create EVs that people actually wanted to buy. It allowed people to "save the earth" while purchasing something desirable.

EVs still have issues like cost and range/charging time but Tesla (with Musk's vision) at least took away the stigma that an EV was a crappy golf cart in disguise.

For a truck that will actually be used to do truck things the EVs don't make any sense right now. The range while towing or hauling large loads is too low. If you drive a truck just because you like to drive a truck then the EV versions can save money in fuel but they are also a lot more expensive than the ICE versions similarly equipped.
 
mkt

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wdwmagic said:
I don't think there is any chance of X becoming an everything app. For that to work, there has to be a massive amount of consumer trust in the platform, which simply is not there with X. I wouldn't trust X for a direct message, never mind banking or anything involving money.
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It's ranked #65 in the app store, between Dominos and a PDF reader. And well WELL below Threads.

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Almost every other social meda app - INCLUDING THREADS - is in the top 10.

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mkt

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Casper Gutman said:
And that's true even though I have very severe misgivings about Disney's activities in China.
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I don't.

The US and European policies of neoliberal economics redefined citizens into consumers.

Why should Chinese consumers be denied Disney just because they have a horrible government?
 
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Lilofan

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Brian said:
Americans absolutely have a place to judge China. It's laughable that you would suggest that because of its "unresolved history on racism" that Americans can't condemn the actual human rights abuses going on right now in China, unlike the whiney, fake ones leftists complain about in America.
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Americans such as I would not give the time of day to judge China. We are dependent on many products and services manufactured from China that we rely on on a day to day basis. We are in bed with them whether we like it or not. In 2020 China attracted more foreign investment than the USA. I doubt human rights issues stopped investment supporting China.
 
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Andrew C

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mkt said:
I mean, it's not like the US is a paragon of human rights when you add its record on human experimentation, colonialism, preventive wars/war supplier, and its unresolved history on racism.

Oh, and the US has also had concentration camps within its borders as recently as this decade.

And no, I'm not saying that China is any better: it isn't. But Americans are in no place to judge while they have their own human rights issues to work on.
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Not going down that road, sir. The question that was raised was regarding why Disney pulled from X due to Elon's comments, but is still comfortable with TikTok.
 
Dranth

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Andrew C said:
Not going down that road, sir. The question that was raised was regarding why Disney pulled from X due to Elon's comments, but is still comfortable with TikTok.
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Because the current CEO of TikTok didn't come out and say anything that requires them to pull advertising?

Look, no one is pretending business doesn't play a role in a decision like this but Elon made it easy. Also, I would be willing to bet that if Shou Chew came out and showed an on going pattern of supporting debunked and hate driven conspiracy theories and then 5 stared some hateful content on TikTok, highlighting how much he agreed with it, Disney would have something to say.
 

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