{"id":881420,"date":"2024-11-27T09:22:43","date_gmt":"2024-11-27T03:52:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=881420"},"modified":"2024-11-27T09:22:43","modified_gmt":"2024-11-27T03:52:43","slug":"tech-tonic-an-elusive-social-media-mirage-and-an-equally-unbothered-elon-musk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2024\/11\/27\/tech-tonic-an-elusive-social-media-mirage-and-an-equally-unbothered-elon-musk\/","title":{"rendered":"Tech Tonic | An elusive social media mirage, and an equally unbothered Elon Musk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The past few days, felt akin to an unpleasant recall. Unpleasant, because of the futility and a resounding failure of the mission humanity set out to complete after Elon Musk took over Twitter (now it\u2019s called X, keep up) a couple of years earlier. Basically, BlueSky has claimed that since the US election results were announced, millions of users have signed up for the platform. That, they first said, took that social media platform\u2019s footprint to about 15 million users. The number, then claimed to be 20 million, a few days ago.. Cue headlines such as \u201cusers are fleeing Elon Musk\u2019s X\u2026\u201d and that \u201cX is haemorrhaging users\u2026\u201d. I\u2019ve seen that before.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The past few days, felt akin to an unpleasant recall. Unpleasant, because of the futility and a resounding failure of the mission humanity set out to complete after Elon Musk took over Twitter (now it\u2019s called X, keep up) a couple of years earlier. Basically, BlueSky has claimed that since the US election results were announced, millions of users have signed up for the platform. That, they first said, took that social media platform\u2019s footprint to about 15 million users. The number, then claimed to be 20 million, a few days ago.. Cue headlines such as \u201cusers are fleeing Elon [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,51,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-881420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hindustantimes","category-it-2-hindustantimes","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/881420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=881420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/881420\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=881420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=881420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=881420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}