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Yeah, Twitter's situation is a risky one to say the least. Definitely not denying that it could come crashing down due to poor management decisions. But I do q
by CM30 4y ago
Yeah, Twitter's situation is a risky one to say the least. Definitely not denying that it could come crashing down due to poor management decisions.
But I do question whether people will move towards any particular alternative, or whether they might even stick with other services they use instead. None of these replacements seem to quite have the pull necessary to attract most of the existing Twitter userbase, and none seem to be taking over in the same way Reddit beat Digg or Facebook beat Myspace. Perhaps the market for a Twitter esque microblogging service might decline as people spend more time on Discord/Reddit/YouTube/TikTok/whatever instead?
Hmm, I guess the only way to know for sure is to wait and see what happens when Twitter comes crashing down.
- pfarrell 4y agoI deleted my mostly unused accounts (one of them even dating back to 2007) when the post advocating who to vote for was published. Of course, not being a heavy user made it easy to do. There are so many different ways people use Twitter, I suspect it will persist. Digg and MySpace (and maybe LiveJournal and del.icio.us) are perfect examples of a social network dying, but Twitter is orders of magnitude bigger than those were. I think Reddit and FB got a big help from the advent of mobile as it brought boatloads of new users online. That pool of new users doesn't exist in 2022.