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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(116,561 posts)
Thu Aug 15, 2024, 12:43 PM Aug 2024

Musk's X reeks of ' Failing Social Network Syndrome'

By Dave Lee / Bloomberg Opinion

The late chef and author Anthony Bourdain used to talk of “Failing Restaurant Syndrome,” the sad stench of an eatery going under. The clientele begins to change. Staff morale drops. Bills stop being paid.

It’s “an affliction,” Bourdain wrote in “Kitchen Confidential,” “that causes owners to flail about looking for a quick fix, a fast masterstroke that will ‘turn things around,’ cure all their ills, reverse the already irreversible trend toward insolvency.”

I’m starting to think the same thing could be said about struggling social networks: Failing Social Network Syndrome, I guess. X, formerly Twitter, utterly reeks of it.

On Monday night, a pungent spectacle erupted when Elon Musk held a “conversation” with former President Donald Trump. This fast masterstroke, which Musk hopes will show X’s political relevancy, merely underlined how far the once-vibrant and powerful network has fallen.

https://www.heraldnet.com/opinion/comment-musks-x-reeks-of-failing-social-network-syndrome/

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Musk's X reeks of ' Failing Social Network Syndrome' (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Aug 2024 OP
'The food here is terrible!' EYESORE 9001 Aug 2024 #1
Wait until his fanboys notice the stench coming from his electric car company. Kid Berwyn Aug 2024 #2

EYESORE 9001

(27,620 posts)
1. 'The food here is terrible!'
Thu Aug 15, 2024, 12:49 PM
Aug 2024

‘Yes, but the portions are so big.’

Still waiting for an avalanche of departures from that wretched cesspool.

Kid Berwyn

(18,370 posts)
2. Wait until his fanboys notice the stench coming from his electric car company.
Thu Aug 15, 2024, 01:02 PM
Aug 2024

Bet that will impact his bottom line. Too.

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