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Twitter’s gonna be a ghost town soon the way it’s trending. Instagram is providing a lifeboat, and it’s a known quantity of “evil”. Compared to whatever the hec

Twitter’s gonna be a ghost town soon the way it’s trending. Instagram is providing a lifeboat, and it’s a known quantity of “evil”. Compared to whatever the heck Musk is doing.

anitil 3y ago
What is the trend? Downwards in the sense of a few percent a year? Or a week?
- ciabattabread 3y ago
  A view quota is not a feature. Especially when the site was acceptably functional the day before.
- epc 3y ago
  Completely anecdotal but: “views” as reported by Twitter of tweets on my private account are down roughly 80% YOY. My follower count has dropped slightly. I’ve been on Twitter since 2007. It’s been a roller coaster of fun, annoying, vaguely threatening and the company’s love/hate/begging/hate relationship with API developers has been maddening. It has the feel of every private equity takeover of a previously popular business, except that Musk and Co. failed to extract any value from the company before saddling it with untenable debt.
  - cypress66 3y ago
    That's most likely due to changes in the algorithm. Especially if you're not verified.
ethanbond 3y ago
Value prop: operated by an adult
foderking 3y ago
yep. The same it became a "ghost town" after everyone migrated to mastadon, hive, tumblr, truth social, bluesky, post and the rest of the other meme "twitter killers"
elforce002 3y ago
So, on one side we have twitter with its crazy policies and on the other side we have fb with its "content moderation guidelines". I don't think you'll see much change since Twitter is twitter because of conflict. That's the reason twitter "replacements" aren't successful: Echo chambers for each faction.
- partiallypro 3y ago
  I do wonder if Threads will allow rather graphic videos like Twitter does. If it doesn't it will not do well. War videos from Ukraine have been extremely important, and Facebook will need to allow much raunchier and sometimes downright NSFL content to truly be a replacement especially to be relevant to current events which is the main selling point of Twitter for most people.

Twitter’s gonna be a ghost town soon the way it’s trending. Instagram is providing a lifeboat, and it’s a known quantity of “evil”. Compared to whatever the heck Musk is doing.

anitil 3y ago

What is the trend? Downwards in the sense of a few percent a year? Or a week?

ciabattabread 3y ago
A view quota is not a feature. Especially when the site was acceptably functional the day before.
epc 3y ago
Completely anecdotal but: “views” as reported by Twitter of tweets on my private account are down roughly 80% YOY. My follower count has dropped slightly. I’ve been on Twitter since 2007. It’s been a roller coaster of fun, annoying, vaguely threatening and the company’s love/hate/begging/hate relationship with API developers has been maddening. It has the feel of every private equity takeover of a previously popular business, except that Musk and Co. failed to extract any value from the company before saddling it with untenable debt.
- cypress66 3y ago
  That's most likely due to changes in the algorithm. Especially if you're not verified.

ethanbond 3y ago

Value prop: operated by an adult

foderking 3y ago

yep. The same it became a "ghost town" after everyone migrated to mastadon, hive, tumblr, truth social, bluesky, post and the rest of the other meme "twitter killers"

elforce002 3y ago

So, on one side we have twitter with its crazy policies and on the other side we have fb with its "content moderation guidelines". I don't think you'll see much change since Twitter is twitter because of conflict. That's the reason twitter "replacements" aren't successful: Echo chambers for each faction.

partiallypro 3y ago
I do wonder if Threads will allow rather graphic videos like Twitter does. If it doesn't it will not do well. War videos from Ukraine have been extremely important, and Facebook will need to allow much raunchier and sometimes downright NSFL content to truly be a replacement especially to be relevant to current events which is the main selling point of Twitter for most people.