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But is twitter really dying? The fields I watch (AI, software engineering, writers), all thought leaders are still there, still posting regularly.
by greyman 3y ago
But is twitter really dying? The fields I watch (AI, software engineering, writers), all thought leaders are still there, still posting regularly.
- sleepybrett 3y agoIn my communities most people are double posting on mastodon and twitter. So much so that I only check twitter every few days for the stragglers.
- AJ007 3y agoI have multiple communities I follow on Twitter and the ones that don't care about the elon stuff, they do now.
- jdminhbg 3y agoMastodon only has about 1.2M active users, so if most of your community is on there, it’s an unusual community. https://mastodon-analytics.com/ https://mastodon-analytics.com/
- sleepybrett 3y agoI mean sure, my mom doesn't have a masto account, she does have a twitter account. It's down to posters vs reply guys vs rubberneckers. If those 1.2M active users are posters and higher quality reply guys, great.
- lapcat 3y agoMost of the iOS developer community has moved to Mastodon. They're the reason I joined Twitter originally. The community is what I care about, not the social media platform.
- bee_rider 3y agoMy post will sound like a stupid gotcha but… what’s a thought leader, how do you measure them? Is it possible that the twitter crew skews more toward talking than doing?
- rch 3y ago> skews more toward talking than doing Same goes for any sufficiently large population, but the outliers worth following still seem to be there too.
- dymk 3y agoThat's fine and valuable, but it doesn't sound like much of a moat. Those thought leaders used something else before Twitter - even if it takes a while, it's not a crazy idea that they'd eventually move somewhere else if the grass is greener.
- somsak2 3y agoWhat is this "something else" that you refer to? In fact, this kind of short-form, global conversation wasn't happening before Twitter, at least not on their scale.
- sblom 3y agoI'm sure MySpace thought the same thing about their never-before-seen accomplishments. I suspect very few people knew what "something else" was in that case, either.
- archagon 3y agoIs it really a conversation, though? I rarely see “thought leaders” actually engage with their audience in a meaningful way.
- evantbyrne 3y agoI'm not really sure what a "thought leader" is, but it sounds like someone that would feel at home on LinkedIn.
- robryan 3y agoMaybe their audiences are smaller. People that depend on their large reach on Twitter are going to be much slower to move on than those without audiences.
- andrei_says_ 3y agoTwitter now has daily outages where parts of it just don’t function and no one knows when we’ll experience a more serious one. It serves the daily/hourly whims and mood swings of a single person who has proven to be petty, vindictive (to his employees), and devoid of integrity. That lack of stability in my opinion accumulates. Sooner or later it will balance out the momentum.
- propogandist 3y agothis was the same narrative pushed when most of the tweeps was axed, but the site has been running fine and has only grown in popularity.
- arvindamirtaa 3y agoGrown in popularity is not really a metric. A normal tuesday and the day half the company's staffers got fired aren't going to be the same in popularity. Doesn't mean one is better. Twitter is definitely more popular for all the mess they've made, yes. The "narrative" was right. There are actual outages now unlike earlier. It's not like twitter engineers were holding up the servers to the light for there to be outages the moment they're gone. Systems run on their own just fine, until something does go wrong. And if there's nobody there to fix it, something usually small blows up. Enough of these and users start to notice degraded performance and outages.
- wyclif 3y agoIt's actually faster now than it's ever been, especially if you're using it from outside of North America.
- super256 3y agoSearch breaks for me all the time, and I need to manually refresh the site at least once a day. Also, I can only scroll on Musk’s twitter profile to his tweets from September. I think it’s due to more aggressive VPN blocking, but I’m not sure about it.
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- nkozyra 3y agoAnecdotally it seems so. Further anecdotal, but I think I've seen one ad that was from a company I recognized that wasn't weird dropshipping stuff in the last few months. It definitely feels less active and the conversation largely dominated by small accounts that are paying the $8.
- ptero 3y agoIt feels this way to me, too; and just from a user perspective it feels better, too. Although it may not be financially sustainable.