HOW THE FUCK IS TWITTER NOT FUCKING DEAD YET
this post was submitted on 25 Nov 2023
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Momentum imo. Same reason Myspace has lasted despite no one I know of messing with in in like a decade.
At the rate its going I think another sell off at a bargain basement price (see also: Tumblr) is inevitable.
I entertain the idea of fucking with MySpace again every now and then, and then I immediately forget
It's a music centric social network now as i recall
People haven't fully migrated to an alternative (Mastodon) yet. Very few people and organizational accounts will just stop Twitter cold-turkey.
And yet Geocities and Tripod and Vine all go under and take everything on them with them.
I was an Angelfire guy, myself.
Let it burn, it's a cesspit of trash and toxic stuff. I hope Musk takes a big dent and humbles up, but I doubt it...
I'm pretty sure he took over for his GOP friends to either make it more backwards or run it into the ground before the big US elections. It probably wasn't his idea, because he's not capable to come up with something that smart. Naming it X revealed he hopes it's salvagable to be his hillbilly incel platform. Either way, he will have fulfilled his task in time.
the saudis financed his twitter buy so he could burn it for them. not a secret.
But not too quickly, because people would move to an alternative overnight if it just ceased to exist.
also, there are legal ramifications for tanking a product heavily leveraged financially.
if you just suck, its legal to break everything.
I honestly think it's more that his right leaning mind virus caused him to think he's doing good in the world by buying up a platform like twitter and making changes that either kill it or if it works it turns it into something he views as a 'free speech' platform. I don't think this is some hidden thing on behalf of the GOP or other groups. Its all him.
If you listen to him he outright says this. He thinks he's the good guy here because in his perspective Twitter was how we all see X now. He believes he's performing a service to the public for a greater good.
Nah. It'll all be the fault of left wing gay Jewish globalist radicals. The funny thing is that this dude is actually pretty intelligent (despite everything you hear) and yet he seems to genuinely believe this kind of bullshit. Just what you get from huffing your own farts too much.
I thought Grimes had an affair with a trans person, and ever since he's been on the crazy train. Maybe he knows exactly that it's all bullshit, but it's also lucrative and hard to backpedal.
Why is anyone even still using Xitter at all? Those that still do are part of the problem and have no real excuse for supporting the Nazi site.
Fear of losing attention and money.
This. Twitter has always been an advertising platform. Just not in the way most people think.
Agree, but there are several industries that still rely on it. The biggest is probably sports news.
Momentum. Plenty of communities on a variety of subjects use twitter as their primary forum, and once something is standard, it’s difficult to change. In my (limited) twitter experience it’s also not too difficult to isolate yourself from a lot of the shit and just follow people who you’re interested in.
It’s still fit for purpose for specific communities of people. And moving to a new platform can cause a lot of problems - tell me with a straight face that Lemmy has reached the same levels of engagement, variety, and diversity that Reddit had.
Elon's not worried. Conservatives never pull out.
A man of culture
Elon pays a high price each time he taps that "Post" button. But he seems like a guy who's happy to YOLO most of his actions.
The man seemingly has access to infinite cash reserves, so formerly known as Twitter won't stop working until he's bored of it. The comments wondering why it's not dead yet seem worn out by now.
Finally, the non-stop flow of articles and posts about the site prove its reach still punches way above it's weight class.
I love to pull out
Darwin looking down at you from the heavens, sadly shaking his head as if to signal "not like this".
They mean, will, right?
Anyone tried squaker yet? Its on fdroid. Browse twitter without the shitty app but tbh its dead af. I deleted sqauker after few days of use.
If it's just a Twitter browser, how is it dead?