The year Twitter died: a special series from The Verge : technology

[-] [email protected] 47 points 9 months ago

nothing of value was lost

[-] [email protected] 90 points 9 months ago

Strongly disagree

Twitter as a venue for influencers to yell at brands and for brands to make risque jokes and for people to have hot takes? Good riddance

Twitter as a venue to allow the people being directly impacted by oppressive regimes, ethnic cleansing, and natural disasters to speak directly to the world? That is very much something that will be missed. My hope is that that would migrate to Mastodon (which would have a lot of benefits) but there is nothing quite so ubiquitous and "simple" that still allows the people being erased by brutal regimes to have a voice.

[-] [email protected] 42 points 9 months ago

Twitter as a venue to allow the people being directly impacted by oppressive regimes

Twitter has played a large role in supporting said regimes.

[-] [email protected] 19 points 9 months ago

Yes. That is the nature of an open platform. If you can find a way to keep the bad people off while not preventing the good people from having a choice, the world would love to hear it.

[-] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago

Yep was a great way to reach politicians and people could hsve direct effect on companies. Because when people took their complaints to Twitter it got shit fixed quick.

Elon saw all this people joke but his goal from day one was to destroy the platform and render it useless for us small folk.

Because at one time it was a powerful tool we could of used to organize and get shit done.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

You say this as if the entire world used Twitter.

[-] [email protected] 23 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Day to day? no

When shit hits the fan? The Arab Spring is probably the quintessential example. But https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter#Usage_2 and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter_usage are good reads to be aware. Rather than just, ironically, do a drive by hot take for the engagement.

[+] [email protected] -7 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Plenty of people were linked to it, sure, but that would be the same without Twitter, too. Twitter is not a new type of service nor is it unique. It’s a flavour.

I think you are stuck in your own bias.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago

Yes. If a different service had the same market share and the same base concept it would fulfill the same role.

But twitter is what fulfilled that role in this timeline. And, as many of us have been lamenting since the chudstain bought it, that is a very major loss.

[-] [email protected] 29 points 9 months ago

They write so many articles on Twitter it will never die

[-] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

I think they've said that Twitter and musk stories get a lot of traffic.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago

so long and you will not be missed

[-] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago

How about murdered

[-] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago

In my personal case I will not miss it.. go fuck yourself twitter rot in hell.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

Entertain the Elk on the YouTube does a great series on this format.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

[-] [email protected] -2 points 9 months ago

Hey everyone! It's the yearly "Twitter is dead" article.

I love how people are now saying Twitter sucks now. But the problem is Twitter always sucks. Yes even under Jack Dorsey it sucked.

[+] [email protected] -6 points 9 months ago

"the year twitter died" is passive, and generally not a preferred way to write this, as there are specific actions by one (EM) or several individuals. The active phrase, "the year twitter was killed", is more reflective of the actual situation, and thus better communication. FTFY.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago

But "was killed" is literally a passive construction

[-] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago

And "died" is active too

[-] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

but this is the news, and as much fun as it might be to point fingers, that could get the office in trouble. Better to just use the passive voice, avoid ruffling any feathers, and maintain neutrality. AP style guide says their headline is fine.

[+] [email protected] -8 points 9 months ago

200M users and it's dead? OK then...

[-] [email protected] 19 points 9 months ago

Trustworthiness in the platform is dead. Musk uses it like his personal sandbox. Advertisers are quickly pulling out. I don't know how they're possibly financially staying afloat.

Twitter was so engrained in communication that it's difficult for many users to leave (sports, etc.). So, I agree, it's not dead yet, but Musk seems to be doing everything he can to poison the well.

I can't imagine how removing the communications department from a company that specializes in communication seemed like a good idea...

[-] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

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[-] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

it's literally called x now

[-] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

200m active users on a platform that has 1.4 billion accounts? Okay.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

Twitter's userbase went down by 20% while all other big tech platforms had a ~5% increase

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