▲ 413 ▼ Twitter Turning Into X Is Set to Kill Billions in Brand Value (www.bnnbloomberg.ca) submitted 3 years ago by Navarian@lemm.ee to c/technology@beehaw.org 127 comments fedilink hide all child comments An estimated $4 to $20 billion in value, what is he thinking?
[–] Gaywallet@beehaw.org 24 points 3 years ago (1 child) Got any sources for that? I've never seen anyone claim it's a success permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] figment@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 3 years ago (1 child) Here's a source for passing the capacity requirement during a test. Again I'm not saying it's going to work when scaled but so far it seems plausible and was far cheaper than building a train or rail between the ends of the convention center. And it has the wow factor. The big benefits are supposed to come once the vehicles can skip all other stops and go directly to the destination. We'll see. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Gaywallet@beehaw.org 5 points 3 years ago (1 child) So they passed the tests they set for capacity? Eh, not really impressed. Thanks though. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] figment@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 3 years ago It was a capacity number set by LVCVA (the customer), but yeah. Not much else they can do yet since it's a small system and events that take over the entire convention center are intermittent. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] figment@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 3 years ago (1 child) Here's a source for passing the capacity requirement during a test. Again I'm not saying it's going to work when scaled but so far it seems plausible and was far cheaper than building a train or rail between the ends of the convention center. And it has the wow factor. The big benefits are supposed to come once the vehicles can skip all other stops and go directly to the destination. We'll see. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Gaywallet@beehaw.org 5 points 3 years ago (1 child) So they passed the tests they set for capacity? Eh, not really impressed. Thanks though. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] figment@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 3 years ago It was a capacity number set by LVCVA (the customer), but yeah. Not much else they can do yet since it's a small system and events that take over the entire convention center are intermittent. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Gaywallet@beehaw.org 5 points 3 years ago (1 child) So they passed the tests they set for capacity? Eh, not really impressed. Thanks though. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] figment@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 3 years ago It was a capacity number set by LVCVA (the customer), but yeah. Not much else they can do yet since it's a small system and events that take over the entire convention center are intermittent. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] figment@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 3 years ago It was a capacity number set by LVCVA (the customer), but yeah. Not much else they can do yet since it's a small system and events that take over the entire convention center are intermittent. permalink fedilink source parent