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> Honestly just kind of done with mass market social media in general at this point I've been saying, the current leaders are too big to fail or get disrupted
by add-sub-mul-div 3y ago
> Honestly just kind of done with mass market social media in general at this point
I've been saying, the current leaders are too big to fail or get disrupted by competition, but if there's a silver lining it's that in lieu of a better Reddit happening we may realize it's a good time to start being less online.
- willis936 3y agoReddit is not too big to fail.
- web11 3y agois not it in the top 5/10 websites in the world?
- willis936 3y agoHow does that make it too big to fail? Are people worried about their deposits? Was Twitter too big to fail? Myspace? Digg?
- eric_cc 3y agoDid Twitter fail?
- willis936 3y agoYes.
- add-sub-mul-div 3y agoIt has failed to remain good/worthwhile. But what I meant is that it's too big to go away and get replaced by something else completely. It has so many users staying there out of habit/inertia, it will take a decade for them to dwindle away.
- eric_cc 3y agoAside from some advertisers leaving, what other metric are you basing this on?
- peoplefromibiza 3y agoless users overall less tweets per user (down by 25%) less time spent on the platform less overall visits > side from some advertisers leavin that's some understatement! Ad Sales: down by 59%
- eric_cc 3y agoSource?
- peoplefromibiza 3y agohttps://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/05/17/how-us-adults-on-twitter-use-the-site-in-the-elon-musk-era/?utm_source=adaptivemailer&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=23-05-17%20twitter%2flabs%20short%20reads&org=982&lvl=100&ite=11811&lea=2479732&ctr=0&par=1&trk=a0d3j000013sygteac https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/05/17/how-us-ad... https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/dec/13/twitter-lose-users-elon-musk-takeover-hate-speech https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/dec/13/twitter-l... https://www.similarweb.com/blog/insights/social-media-news/twitter-shrinking/ https://www.similarweb.com/blog/insights/social-media-news/t... https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/05/technology/twitter-ad-sales-musk.html https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/05/technology/twitter-ad-sal...