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Not only is twitter small compared to WhatsApp, it's tiny, and has had static (no) user growth for seven years (previously reported 300 million active monthly u
by hadlock 4y ago
Not only is twitter small compared to WhatsApp, it's tiny, and has had static (no) user growth for seven years (previously reported 300 million active monthly users, recently announced it had been over reporting...). The tech and journalism communities exist in a bit of an echo chamber. Twitter might be a "household name" but it's importance for mass communication is a bit overblown.
- holmesworcester 4y agoEven if that's true, it's still valuable and praiseworthy for Twitter to take this step. If some small open source communication tool that was important to Hacker News readers added end-to-end encryption we'd all be cheering, no? So why isn't it a big deal (in some sense at least) for Twitter to do it?
- hadlock 4y agoBased on the number of people replying "don't post twitter threads, they're user hostile 1/22" I am not sure twitter is celebrated here by the majority.