Although Elon Musk recently changed the name of Twitter to become the property of the billionaire, the number of errors, mistakes and malicious actions which was carried out in these months will completely bury any positive success that could have been recorded.

Just yesterday, without further ado, we were talking about their pilot test to start charging one dollar a year for newly created accounts. This fee will initially be imposed in the Philippines and New Zealand, but there should be no doubt that if the result is at least positive, the measure will spread to the rest of the world at the speed of light. It also recently started displaying advertising disguised as publications, removed captions from link previews, proposed to cancel the account blocking function… The list is endless and goes from bad to worse..

One of the keys to the success of a social network is without a doubt your user volume. This is something that other services such as Facebook or Instagram have been clear about since their inception, and although they have also signed up to offer paid accounts, it seems unlikely that they would consider limiting themselves by implementing a policy of only paying accounts. or preventing access to them from certain regions. It’s true, yes, Threads, the Twitter alternative created by Instagram, is not yet available in the European Union due to common space legislation, but we can be sure that if given the chance, Meta would not hesitate to expand its reach. .

On this occasion, however, it seems that the opposite may be the case, as, as we can read in Business Insider, Musk is considering blocking access to Twitter in the European Union to avoid having to conform to its regulatory framework. We’ve talked about the EU’s “slaps on the wrist” to Elon Musk on Twitter in the past, in fact the first one happened even before his acquisition was completed, but still, the mogul doesn’t seem to have taken it. warning as seriously as he should.

Now, at a particularly delicate moment because of the situation in the Middle East, The European Union once again asked Musk for more control over the spread of disinformation and fake newsbut according to a source cited by the said publication, it seems that the billionaire has no appetite for this job and is considering leaving the European market in order not to have to respond to the said demand of the institutions of the common space.

It is true that according to the data we can find on Statista, only four of the 20 European Union countries are among the top 20 markets, none of them among the top 10. In order, they are Germany in eleventh place with 14.1 million, France in twelfth with 13.7 million, Spain in fourteenth with 10.85 million and the Netherlands in eighteenth with 7.55 million. However, giving up a total of 46.2 million usersin a time as critical as the social network is currently experiencing, this would be another really unfortunate step.