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Login wall for me. I'll give it a day and then delete the dozen or so remaining twitter accounts I had bookmarked and checked in occasionally. I did delete my a
by TomK32 3y ago
Login wall for me. I'll give it a day and then delete the dozen or so remaining twitter accounts I had bookmarked and checked in occasionally. I did delete my account a few months before Elon took over, guess we are watching its final days.
- cutemoron 3y agoIt isn’t final until people actually leave there. As long as there’re users. Otherwise not gonna happen :(
- DennisAleynikov 3y agoyeah still waiting on this so called twitter sudden death as people keep hyping up. "this isn't an airport you don't need to announce your departure" - aristotle probably
- stOneskull 3y agotwitter's a bit of fun. i'm loving this wrestling match hype between zuck and musk.
- DennisAleynikov 3y agoand watching wagnerPMC storm moscow was no snoozefest
- tourmalinetaco 3y agoUn/fortunately, they didn’t storm Moscow. It was rather interesting to see them advance, however. Though whether this was a distraction to hide something else (say, “banishing” a PMC closer to the border) or a genuine coup has yet to be seen.
- ern 3y agoI stopped using Twitter months ago. Stopped Tweeting and only visit the site if I need to follow a link. I never announced it. There was a trend of high profile Tweeters announcing their departure, and some may well have relapsed (I don't keep track) but it would be interesting to see how many people just stopped bothering with the site and all its drama.
- DennisAleynikov 3y agoyou're announcing it to me right now, must I quote Aristotle again? if twitter is dead to you, let it rot and die in the corner. free yourself from caring about its outcomes
- ZeroGravitas 3y agoIt probably is polite to announce when you switch communication channels if you have any kind of audience.
- rsynnott 3y agoWith the notable exception of Digg, big-bang deaths are rather rare for social networks (and even Digg's wasn't _quite_ as big-bang as people tend to remember); they drift slowly into obscurity. While there might be a triggering factor that could be remembered as the cause of the decline, it's generally hard to pinpoint a time of death.
- MereInterest 3y agoVery few sites die entirely. Usenet, BBS, AOL, nethack.alt.org, AskJeeves, MySpace, and Facebook all still exist. That doesn’t mean they remain culturally relevant.
- stOneskull 3y ago> AskJeeves dogpile too
- jwestbury 3y agoAh, Dogpile. The search connoisseur's choice before Google.
- oneeyedpigeon 3y agoUsers will remain, they will just represent a much more narrow slice of society than before. They will be smaller in number and Twitter itself will be less of an 'approved' service — I feel like we already see less promotion of it on TV and on news sites.
- rsynnott 3y agoWell, depends how you're defining 'final', really. Like, one way of looking at it is that Livejournal hasn't had its final day yet; there are still people on Livejournal. Another is that it had its final day in 2006 or so; from that point on (at least in the English-speaking world; I think it stayed relevant in Russia for longer) it was kind of a legacy semi-zombie social network. Twitter's whole thing is its outsized cultural relevance for a rather small user base. If that goes, well, arguably, it's had its final day. This particular change seems like it might go a long way towards ending its relevance; an awful lot of people used twitter only via clicking links from news articles etc, and never actually had an account.
- xNeil 3y agoWhat in the world gives you the impression Twitter is in its final days? Naysayers have been saying Twitter fill fail any day now for about 8 or 9 months now.
- SCdF 3y agoWhen people talk about Twitter dying, they are talking about its relevance. No one means "Twitter.com will redirect to a domain squatter". E.g, despite it being dead since the redesign in 2010, you can still go to digg.com right now, create an account and all. Fark.com still exists. Slashdot still exists. None of these sites are relevant anymore though.
- upon_drumhead 3y agoWhile I have been and still am a fark user, I don’t know that it’s ever been widely relevant.
- williamvds 3y agoNitter mirrors usually offer RSS feeds (e.g. <nitter>/<user>/rss) which is how I've been keeping up with a few accounts for years now. We'll see how long the feeds continue working for.
- justnotworthit 3y agohttps://github.com/zedeus/nitter/issues/919 https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/issues/919
- wl 3y agoThose stopped working for me last night.
- tourmalinetaco 3y agoWeird, mine have updated since 3hrs ago.
- dawnerd 3y agonitter is having all kinds of issues. My personal instance decided to go into a restart loop and I had to kill it. rsshub still seems to work.
- tourmalinetaco 3y agoYeah Nitter is now completely dead unfortunately. https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/issues/919 https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/issues/919