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I can't help but wonder why a company retiring a script that syndicates status update to another website is at all newsworthy (or a good enough idea to be worth

by jhgg 3y ago

I can't help but wonder why a company retiring a script that syndicates status update to another website is at all newsworthy (or a good enough idea to be worth the possible confusion this might cause to consumers who find it valuable to receive status updates via that medium.)

thih9 3y ago
For me it’s an indicator, we used to see social media / Twitter as convenient and accessible, to the point of being able to use it as a status page; now a popular company has decided that it will no longer do that.
rsynnott 3y ago
_In itself_, it's not. But the death of Twitter as a semi-reliable place to put status updates (it doesn't really work at all for non-logged-in users for this purpose anymore) is arguably noteworthy. Maybe we'll even see an RSS renaissance! > or a good enough idea to be worth the possible confusion this might cause to consumers who find it valuable to receive status updates via that medium. I assume they're trying to _avoid_ confusion. If you go to their status twitter right now, unless you're logged in, it shows you an incident from 2022.
- suddenclarity 3y ago
  Meanwhile a recent survey published last week showed that Twitter reach in Sweden was at an all-time high this year. Newspapers left with the argument that no one uses the service, despite there being twice as many real users as when they celebrated the site. Now this claim from Slack that they don't have resources for autoposting messages? The death of Twitter seems quite questionable and mostly political.
  - bachmeier 3y ago
    You're responding to a comment saying Twitter only works for users that are logged in with unsourced claims that Twitter usage in Sweden is growing.
    - suddenclarity 3y ago
      I'm replying to his claim about "the death of Twitter". Unfortunately I can't edit my original comment to add the source but now when I'm on my computer I can provide it here. It's a yearly survey from the organisation in charge of the top domain .SE https://svenskarnaochinternet.se/rapporter/svenskarna-och-internet-2023/ https://svenskarnaochinternet.se/rapporter/svenskarna-och-in...
      - optionalsquid 3y ago
        Could I ask you to point me to the part of the report that shows that Twitter reach in Sweden was at an all-time high this year? My Swedish isn't great, so I'm having trouble finding it.
      - rsynnott 3y ago
        So the question asked was: > Question: What social networking sites/social media have you used in the past 12 months? And it is noted elsewhere that the survey was taken before the rebrand in June. So I don't think this _actually_ tells you as much about Twitter in 2023 as the title implies. What this really says is that more people claimed to have used Twitter in 2022 than in 2021, maybe with some overlap into 2023 at the edges. Of course, it also says nothing about the nature of that use. Anyway, that's irrelevant, as I didn't say Twitter is dying, I said: > the death of Twitter as a semi-reliable place to put status updates I absolutely stand by that; again, it is showing random incidents from the last four years in random order on their status twitter unless you're logged in. That makes it clearly unusable for status updates. I would not, by the way, that even if it meant what you thought it meant, it would not be _great_ evidence against the death of Twitter, in that it's scoped to a single country. On that basis, you could claim that Orkut, or Bebo (depending on country chosen) was the dominant social network of the late noughties.
  - rsynnott 3y ago
    An unspecified survey in Sweden claimed that more people were using Twitter? Oh, well, my apologies, showing incidents from the last four years in a random order must be a sensible way to run a status page, then. Like, seriously, what on earth are you talking about?
- Hamuko 3y ago
  I switched from Twitter to RSS in February to get my news. It's been great.
kawhah 3y ago
Because social media is at an inflection point. That is of interest. And the small pieces of signal related to that are of interest, because while incomplete and noisy, they are the best indication we have of what's next. Edit you work for Discord my friend surely you can see that something is happening here?
Gareth321 3y ago
Clicks. There are no articles every time a new service starts using Twitter. And there are thousands every day. Each time one stops using Twitter, there's an article, and people click and comment. As to why people are interested in people and companies leaving Twitter, your guess is as good as mine. I suspect a lot of people are annoyed with the state of social media today and are cheering for its demise.

by jhgg 3y ago

thih9 3y ago

For me it’s an indicator, we used to see social media / Twitter as convenient and accessible, to the point of being able to use it as a status page; now a popular company has decided that it will no longer do that.

rsynnott 3y ago

_In itself_, it's not. But the death of Twitter as a semi-reliable place to put status updates (it doesn't really work at all for non-logged-in users for this purpose anymore) is arguably noteworthy. Maybe we'll even see an RSS renaissance! > or a good enough idea to be worth the possible confusion this might cause to consumers who find it valuable to receive status updates via that medium. I assume they're trying to _avoid_ confusion. If you go to their status twitter right now, unless you're logged in, it shows you an incident from 2022.

suddenclarity 3y ago
Meanwhile a recent survey published last week showed that Twitter reach in Sweden was at an all-time high this year. Newspapers left with the argument that no one uses the service, despite there being twice as many real users as when they celebrated the site. Now this claim from Slack that they don't have resources for autoposting messages? The death of Twitter seems quite questionable and mostly political.
- bachmeier 3y ago
  You're responding to a comment saying Twitter only works for users that are logged in with unsourced claims that Twitter usage in Sweden is growing.
  - suddenclarity 3y ago
    I'm replying to his claim about "the death of Twitter". Unfortunately I can't edit my original comment to add the source but now when I'm on my computer I can provide it here. It's a yearly survey from the organisation in charge of the top domain .SE https://svenskarnaochinternet.se/rapporter/svenskarna-och-internet-2023/ https://svenskarnaochinternet.se/rapporter/svenskarna-och-in...
    - optionalsquid 3y ago
      Could I ask you to point me to the part of the report that shows that Twitter reach in Sweden was at an all-time high this year? My Swedish isn't great, so I'm having trouble finding it.
    - rsynnott 3y ago
      So the question asked was: > Question: What social networking sites/social media have you used in the past 12 months? And it is noted elsewhere that the survey was taken before the rebrand in June. So I don't think this _actually_ tells you as much about Twitter in 2023 as the title implies. What this really says is that more people claimed to have used Twitter in 2022 than in 2021, maybe with some overlap into 2023 at the edges. Of course, it also says nothing about the nature of that use. Anyway, that's irrelevant, as I didn't say Twitter is dying, I said: > the death of Twitter as a semi-reliable place to put status updates I absolutely stand by that; again, it is showing random incidents from the last four years in random order on their status twitter unless you're logged in. That makes it clearly unusable for status updates. I would not, by the way, that even if it meant what you thought it meant, it would not be _great_ evidence against the death of Twitter, in that it's scoped to a single country. On that basis, you could claim that Orkut, or Bebo (depending on country chosen) was the dominant social network of the late noughties.
- rsynnott 3y ago
  An unspecified survey in Sweden claimed that more people were using Twitter? Oh, well, my apologies, showing incidents from the last four years in a random order must be a sensible way to run a status page, then. Like, seriously, what on earth are you talking about?
Hamuko 3y ago
I switched from Twitter to RSS in February to get my news. It's been great.

kawhah 3y ago

Because social media is at an inflection point. That is of interest. And the small pieces of signal related to that are of interest, because while incomplete and noisy, they are the best indication we have of what's next. Edit you work for Discord my friend surely you can see that something is happening here?

Gareth321 3y ago

Clicks. There are no articles every time a new service starts using Twitter. And there are thousands every day. Each time one stops using Twitter, there's an article, and people click and comment. As to why people are interested in people and companies leaving Twitter, your guess is as good as mine. I suspect a lot of people are annoyed with the state of social media today and are cheering for its demise.