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Hacker News users have been predicting the imminent demise of Twitter for a whole year now. Clearly the least predictive user base. People have been "giving it

Hacker News users have been predicting the imminent demise of Twitter for a whole year now. Clearly the least predictive user base. People have been "giving it two weeks" before it collapses for so long now. Lowest quality prediction ever.

justinzollars 3y ago
Most of my friends who use Hacker News also left Twitter. Although, I think its more a function of being millennial, hunkering down in their safe spaces of content moderation and political total alignment. #NorthKorea
jnwatson 3y ago
AOL and Yahoo are still kicking. The question isn't whether Twitter will go out of business, the question is whether it will remain relevant. Its relevance has declined significantly in the last year.
- brabel 3y ago
  This same post links to this post by Elon Musk which shows monthly users growing: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1684978651857596429 https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1684978651857596429 Difficult to see how its relevance is declining when users are either declining very slowly or increasing, depending on which metric you look.
wholesomepotato 3y ago
It will collapse within a week without all the fired engineers!!1 Or on Thanks Giving. Or World Cup. Or New Year. Or... anytime now. Sooo buggy! Predictable haters took a bite and there's a flood of self reassuring comments on how Mastodon is great.
houseatrielah 3y ago
They just hate him because he's not ideologically compliant.
- JackRumford 3y ago
  Criticisms of Elon Musk are not solely based on ideological differences, but also on concerns regarding his behavior, management style, and the working conditions at his companies, which some believe warrant scrutiny irrespective of his personal beliefs. He just doesn't feel like a good person and isn't relatable. This is why I think people hate him.
  - houseatrielah 3y ago
    Doesn't seem like that. Any excuse to crap on Musk is celebrated; where others get a pass, for example, Bill Gates is a miserable person who wants everyone to eat fake burgers, visited Epstein Island, and tried to steal Paul Allen's net-worth, then constantly lectures to the plebs as if he is our feudal lord; where's the hate for him? I don't see it. What explains the difference?
scarygliders 3y ago
The amount of sheer bile and hostility towards Musk on this HN item alone says a lot about the hivemind at work here. Unsubstantiated claims abound. I mean, it's OK to dislike Musk - there are one or two things he says which I don't like, but there also things I agree with him on; I'm a big fan of SpaceX, and I wouldn't ever purchase a Tesla (even if I could afford one), but I'm finding a lot of the bile being spewed here a bit of an eye raiser. There's a guy on here who complains about "getting stuff from accounts they're not following" - and that's probably because they're on the "For you" setting rather than the "Following" setting; they're basing their dislike of X/Twitter on something they are in complete control of, in other words. I just have to shake my head at that one. And even if they were on "Following" - it's very likely one of the accounts they're following retweets a post from some account they might not necessarily be following. There's a post on here accusing Musk of being anti-semitic; I've yet to see one anti-semitic post Musk has ever made.
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justinzollars 3y ago

Most of my friends who use Hacker News also left Twitter. Although, I think its more a function of being millennial, hunkering down in their safe spaces of content moderation and political total alignment. #NorthKorea

jnwatson 3y ago

AOL and Yahoo are still kicking. The question isn't whether Twitter will go out of business, the question is whether it will remain relevant. Its relevance has declined significantly in the last year.

brabel 3y ago
This same post links to this post by Elon Musk which shows monthly users growing: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1684978651857596429 https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1684978651857596429 Difficult to see how its relevance is declining when users are either declining very slowly or increasing, depending on which metric you look.

wholesomepotato 3y ago

It will collapse within a week without all the fired engineers!!1 Or on Thanks Giving. Or World Cup. Or New Year. Or... anytime now. Sooo buggy! Predictable haters took a bite and there's a flood of self reassuring comments on how Mastodon is great.

houseatrielah 3y ago

They just hate him because he's not ideologically compliant.

JackRumford 3y ago
Criticisms of Elon Musk are not solely based on ideological differences, but also on concerns regarding his behavior, management style, and the working conditions at his companies, which some believe warrant scrutiny irrespective of his personal beliefs. He just doesn't feel like a good person and isn't relatable. This is why I think people hate him.
- houseatrielah 3y ago
  Doesn't seem like that. Any excuse to crap on Musk is celebrated; where others get a pass, for example, Bill Gates is a miserable person who wants everyone to eat fake burgers, visited Epstein Island, and tried to steal Paul Allen's net-worth, then constantly lectures to the plebs as if he is our feudal lord; where's the hate for him? I don't see it. What explains the difference?

scarygliders 3y ago

The amount of sheer bile and hostility towards Musk on this HN item alone says a lot about the hivemind at work here. Unsubstantiated claims abound. I mean, it's OK to dislike Musk - there are one or two things he says which I don't like, but there also things I agree with him on; I'm a big fan of SpaceX, and I wouldn't ever purchase a Tesla (even if I could afford one), but I'm finding a lot of the bile being spewed here a bit of an eye raiser. There's a guy on here who complains about "getting stuff from accounts they're not following" - and that's probably because they're on the "For you" setting rather than the "Following" setting; they're basing their dislike of X/Twitter on something they are in complete control of, in other words. I just have to shake my head at that one. And even if they were on "Following" - it's very likely one of the accounts they're following retweets a post from some account they might not necessarily be following. There's a post on here accusing Musk of being anti-semitic; I've yet to see one anti-semitic post Musk has ever made.

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