{"id":261471,"date":"2023-11-18T07:47:44","date_gmt":"2023-11-18T12:47:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sftarticles.wpenginepowered.com\/es\/?p=315851"},"modified":"2025-07-01T17:38:24","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T00:38:24","slug":"better-shots-than-retweets-fortnite-is-worth-more-than-twitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/better-shots-than-retweets-fortnite-is-worth-more-than-twitter\/","title":{"rendered":"Better shots than retweets: 'Fortnite' is now worth more than Twitter"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The day Elon Musk<\/a><\/strong> walked into Twitter’s offices with a sink in his hands marked the beginning of the infamy that has led to the downfall of the once indispensable social network as a series of blunders<\/strong>, from the removal of the circles to the placement of a giant illuminated ‘X’ that polluted the luminosity of the rest of San Francisco. And all of this… only to end up losing an enormous amount of money.<\/p>\n\n\n

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An epic investment<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

What would you do if you had an extra $44 billion? Elon Musk seems to have known exactly what to do: he bought Twitter so he could play with it. A year later, it is estimated that the social network is worth between 50% and 90% less (i.e., between $4 billion and $19 billion)<\/strong>. The truth probably lies in the middle, around $15 billion, which is less than the current value of Epic Games, the developer of ‘Fortnite<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And after a financing round where they raised -attention- an additional $1.78 billion, right now it’s worth $17.3 billion<\/strong> (and rising). So, if Musk<\/a><\/strong>, instead of wanting to argue, had wanted to shoot to vent, he might have made one of the best investments in history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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223 million people use ‘Fortnite’ monthly compared to the 528 million who do the same on Twitter. However, Twitter Blue can’t compete, not by a long shot, in popularity with Epic’s <\/a><\/strong>microtransactions. Perhaps in the future, the strategy of the world’s richest person will succeed, and we’ll be using the social network of the former little bird to access our bank <\/strong>and do everything he wants us to do, but it doesn’t seem likely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the other hand, ‘Fortnite’ was not, like other pandemic games (eh, ‘Fall Guys’?), a one-day wonder, and even now, it is at its peak of popularity<\/strong>. The Gen Z throwing the floss dance in the face of the old folks. We brought it upon ourselves, truth be told.<\/p>\n\n\n

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What would you do if you had $44 billion left over? Elon Musk seems to have it clear: he bought Twitter so he could play with it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9263,"featured_media":261473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":1},"categories":[1015],"tags":[2358,1906,1668,1415],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-261471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-app-subdomain-redirectiontwitter","tag-epic-games","tag-fortnite","tag-twitter"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9263"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261471"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":316353,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261471\/revisions\/316353"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/261473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261471"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=261471"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=261471"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=261471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}