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"Just like 7 months ago, Twitter's network effect was constantly tested and many alternatives have tried to challenge it, but instead its users will still run b

"Just like 7 months ago, Twitter's network effect was constantly tested and many alternatives have tried to challenge it, but instead its users will still run back to using Twitter again, especially accounts with lots of followers." Twitter is dramatically less relevant today than it was 7 months ago. Musk can post made-up stats claiming the most engagement ever [1], but across multiple industries the importance of Twitter has completely collapsed. In many cases it isn't being replaced by anything similar. You are absolutely correct that there is a huge amount of stickiness. That's why Elon paid $44B for it. It would take some catastrophic mismanagement to truly kill the site, and Elon seems to be committed to doing that. [1] Which will be intermixed with complaints about the bot problem, DDOS crawling, etc.

rsynnott 3y ago
> In many cases it isn't being replaced by anything similar. Which is more or less what you'd expect; that's what normally happens to dying social networks. Most people leaving LiveJournal didn't go to Dreamwidth or similar (ie Livejournal clones); they went to Twitter or Tumblr or other not particularly LiveJournal-like things. I think it's actually fairly plausible now that Threads acts as a drop-in replacement for Twitter, but it's also plausible that it's Twitter's Dreamwidth, and most users go to different sorts of social networks entirely.