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Hypothetically, what do we think the effect would be if twitter went down and never came back?

• tjpnz 4y ago
  Journalists might start engaging with the wider public again rather than constructing their stories from within an echo chamber.
• throwaway787544 4y ago
  Users'd probably just join Reddit. It's full of snark and outrage too Elon would make his own Twitter called Doge-r, and a company that developed it and also did construction, so he could have dump trucks called Dogers (as in bulldozer), jokes about "taking a dump", etc
• Ygg2 4y ago
  As tempting it is to write world peace and leave, that wouldn't be true. Biggest unofficial support channel would be closed. Also my large smut collection would be inaccessible.
• dspillett 4y ago
  A small short-lived productivity increase, followed by a mad rush of other services trying to spin up (or scale up if already running) and piling lots of man-hours into advertising themselves as the best replacement. Also many miles of column-space pontificating on the whys/wherefores, and a few people will try to sue because there was one little bit of irreplaceable information on there that is vital to them and they didn't have backed up elsewhere. Other than that, little or nothing of long-lasting consequence I expect.
• ok_coo 4y ago
  No hate to any of the engineers there, but honestly, it would be a net positive for society. The level of vitriol, hate, and performative outrage has reached up to the gods on Twitter. The valuable signal that comes out has long been overwhelmed by the noise. There are other platforms that largely fulfill the same purpose.
• ankaAr 4y ago
  Mr Musk buying it for a cheaper price