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Plus Twitter is just starting to break out and become interesting, taking on the establishment media, if genuine, is a very healthy idea on Musk's part.

ocdtrekkie 4y ago
My Twitter feed is almost entirely dead. There's one person I follow who doesn't want to put in the effort to spin up their own Mastodon server but doesn't want to join anyone else's, and one who worries about censorship by Mastodon moderators (even though it's Musk banning all the journalists), and that's it. I shut Twitter notifications off on my phone because all I still get at group chat spam about fake crypto giveaways and ads for Twitter Blue which I'm pretty sure violates Apple's app store terms. Even the influencer types I follow see higher engagement on Mastodon even if the numbers look smaller, and have thrown in the towel. Twitter's dead and buried.
- tester457 4y ago
  > Twitter's dead and buried. I think it's actually that your side of the internet and the people you follow are in the tech niche, i.e. people who are conscious about this stuff are the ones who are leaving. But the bulk of users, the people who don't care about technology, the millions of teenagers and memers are all going to stay on twitter.
  - WesSouza 4y ago
    Twitter is not dead, it has cancer. It might die in a month or a couple of years, if left untreated.
ericmay 4y ago
I'm curious about this. I've been using Twitter for some time and haven't noticed much in the way of change. What do you mean by "taking on the establishment media"? How is Twitter doing this when it's a platform for content creators and isn't producing original content? Fox News, the New York Times, CNN, the BBC, etc. are all still publishing content as they have been for years. I did notice that Twitter began banning people who the now CEO dislikes, and then letting some previously banned people back on such as the newly under arrest Andrew Tate who is almost certainly a participant in human trafficking.
Nursie 4y ago
This is a hilarious take. In the real world, Musk is making twitter a toxic brand and his own image with it. He's not taking on establishment media so much as shitposting nonsense memes and tanking the value of his companies.

ocdtrekkie 4y ago

My Twitter feed is almost entirely dead. There's one person I follow who doesn't want to put in the effort to spin up their own Mastodon server but doesn't want to join anyone else's, and one who worries about censorship by Mastodon moderators (even though it's Musk banning all the journalists), and that's it. I shut Twitter notifications off on my phone because all I still get at group chat spam about fake crypto giveaways and ads for Twitter Blue which I'm pretty sure violates Apple's app store terms. Even the influencer types I follow see higher engagement on Mastodon even if the numbers look smaller, and have thrown in the towel. Twitter's dead and buried.

tester457 4y ago
> Twitter's dead and buried. I think it's actually that your side of the internet and the people you follow are in the tech niche, i.e. people who are conscious about this stuff are the ones who are leaving. But the bulk of users, the people who don't care about technology, the millions of teenagers and memers are all going to stay on twitter.
- WesSouza 4y ago
  Twitter is not dead, it has cancer. It might die in a month or a couple of years, if left untreated.

ericmay 4y ago

I'm curious about this. I've been using Twitter for some time and haven't noticed much in the way of change. What do you mean by "taking on the establishment media"? How is Twitter doing this when it's a platform for content creators and isn't producing original content? Fox News, the New York Times, CNN, the BBC, etc. are all still publishing content as they have been for years. I did notice that Twitter began banning people who the now CEO dislikes, and then letting some previously banned people back on such as the newly under arrest Andrew Tate who is almost certainly a participant in human trafficking.

Nursie 4y ago

This is a hilarious take. In the real world, Musk is making twitter a toxic brand and his own image with it. He's not taking on establishment media so much as shitposting nonsense memes and tanking the value of his companies.