https://techcrunch.com/2023/01/07/3-views-what-does-the-future-of-social-media-after-twitter-look-like/ > Twitter’s demise might be overstated, but we still can’t unsee what we saw in 2022. > The newly Elon Musk-owned social network could continue zombie-shuffling for months or years for all we know if Elon Musk can scrape together enough advertising revenue to pay the bills — namely, the massive interest on the $13 billion in debt that he saddled the company with in order to buy it. Twitter could also declare bankruptcy and go poof — an outcome that Musk himself has said is very much on the table, and one that’s underlined by Twitter’s recent refusal to pay for everything from office rent to toilet paper.