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Despite continuously making very unpopular moves, I can't see how Twitter loses its users. In fact, I think it will exist long after usage on Facebook, Instagra
by lhnz 3y ago
Despite continuously making very unpopular moves, I can't see how Twitter loses its users. In fact, I think it will exist long after usage on Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and TikTok falters -- because, it is less replaceable and less age-demographic dependent.
I also think that advertisers will return when budgets increase again. There aren't that many other good options.
In the long term, I think it goes nowhere and returns to profitability and a higher valuation.
- coldpie 3y agoEh, I deleted my account last October because of his policy changes, and I'm definitely not the only one. It's honestly been great to remove it from my life, I owe Musk for nudging me to get off the platform and have one less social media thing to make me feel crappy.
- lhnz 3y agoI didn't mean that literally zero users have left Twitter. But, I do not recognise its replacement by other services (Threads, Bluesky or Mastodon). Obviously there are people that have cut social media out of their lives, and there are people that belong to Mastodon servers and so on, but this is a small subset of users.
- yibg 3y agoDoesn’t really matter if the users are there if the revenue isn’t. Revenue seems to be the struggle at the moment.
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- moritzwarhier 3y agoI am very angry about government officials posting public and relevant information on a commercial platform with a randomly appearing login wall and questionable recommendation algorithms. It's the web. Please do better. I also hate how news outlets embed Xitter, although I have seen some creative workarounds. Is humanity really dumping the last remnants of productive political discourse into this centralized and manipulative trash cans because we are unable to define suitable web standards (e.g. for short and distributable messages)?
- sunflowerfly 3y agoAll of the tech people I followed moved to Mastodon.