As a commenter in that thread suggested (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33986124 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33986124), slow degradation of the v

As a commenter in that thread suggested (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33986124 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33986124), slow degradation of the value of using Twitter is a more likely outcome than a sudden "collapse". This is not contradicted by the site having stayed up, or by there being more users now than before. The engagement metrics can go up in the short term, but lead to 4chan in the long term. I'm starting to see some degradation already -- for example, a bunch of researchers I follow fled to Mastodon, so Twitter is less useful to me than before. I think this is a second-order effect of Musk's cruel/trollish behavior and of the content moderation, sales, legal, and policy teams being gutted, functions which someone who views Twitter as a "software and services company" (his phrasing) probably see as less important.