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That's my impression, there's no existing staff or technical asset that can help you if you JUST DON'T GET IT. Watching Tumbler and Twitter die because individ

by cfr2023 3y ago

That's my impression, there's no existing staff or technical asset that can help you if you JUST DON'T GET IT. Watching Tumbler and Twitter die because individuals essentially decided they didn't want us to have them anymore has been informative.

johnnyanmac 3y ago
Sadly Twitter is too big to fail and its best competitor is invite only. Mastodon wasn't ready for the windfall that would result, not even close. Tumblr yeah. The general format of traditional blogging was already in trouble and Yahoo simply chopped off what that audience appreciated.
- solumunus 3y ago
  I’m willing to bet that in a decade there will be a Twitter alternative more mainstream relevant than Twitter.
  - bruceb 3y ago
    How much and how would you measure which is bigger and in what parameters? I would put $250 on Twitter side.
  - johnnyanmac 3y ago
    Interesting. I'm not optimistic but I also wouldn't take that bet. On one hand I don't think Twitter was ever profitable, so there's not much inventive to compete. But on the other hand, I don't think even Twitter can survive a decade of implosion. Bluesky may not be as big in 2030 as Twitter was at its peak, but if Twitter is legitimately dead it doesn't matter. My cynical take is that microblogging also becomes a niche and "content creation" on Instagram/TikTok et. All takes over as refugees retrofit a different medium entirely to what they desire to do.
  - usrusr 3y ago
    More mainstream relevant than Twitter will be in a decade? Seems inevitable. Even remotely as mainstream relevant as Twitter was in its heyday? I don't expect that to repeat, ever.
  - empiricus 3y ago
    quite possible, but it would not be correlated with how good twitter is. just a consequence of random changes in the zeitgeist.
  - cfr2023 3y ago
    Late to reply, but I sure hope so, and appreciate your open optimism on the subject.
basisword 3y ago
Twitter seems to be doing alright. I was a massive skeptic but a year on if I want to see live comments on something mainstream, it's 100% the only place to go. Tumblr is now owned by Automattic - I've no idea how well it's doing but I'm 99% sure that's because I'm no longer an angsty teenager and Tumblr was the place to be for that.
- asadotzler 3y ago
  Twitter has gone completely to shit. My account was over 13 years old when I deleted it recently. The comments under any interesting post are dominated by blue check losers paying to get their idiot hot takes pushed to the top of the queue. It's a total shit show enough that I've given up 100% on posting and commenting and now only read occasionally with Blue Blocker active and doing my best to scroll down past the literal Nazis and Musk sycophants to replies from reasonable human beings. I go to Twitter like I go to the liquor store in an unfamiliar neighborhood, cautious, and in and out as quickly as I can.

johnnyanmac 3y ago

Sadly Twitter is too big to fail and its best competitor is invite only. Mastodon wasn't ready for the windfall that would result, not even close. Tumblr yeah. The general format of traditional blogging was already in trouble and Yahoo simply chopped off what that audience appreciated.

solumunus 3y ago
I’m willing to bet that in a decade there will be a Twitter alternative more mainstream relevant than Twitter.
- bruceb 3y ago
  How much and how would you measure which is bigger and in what parameters? I would put $250 on Twitter side.
- johnnyanmac 3y ago
  Interesting. I'm not optimistic but I also wouldn't take that bet. On one hand I don't think Twitter was ever profitable, so there's not much inventive to compete. But on the other hand, I don't think even Twitter can survive a decade of implosion. Bluesky may not be as big in 2030 as Twitter was at its peak, but if Twitter is legitimately dead it doesn't matter. My cynical take is that microblogging also becomes a niche and "content creation" on Instagram/TikTok et. All takes over as refugees retrofit a different medium entirely to what they desire to do.
- usrusr 3y ago
  More mainstream relevant than Twitter will be in a decade? Seems inevitable. Even remotely as mainstream relevant as Twitter was in its heyday? I don't expect that to repeat, ever.
- empiricus 3y ago
  quite possible, but it would not be correlated with how good twitter is. just a consequence of random changes in the zeitgeist.
- cfr2023 3y ago
  Late to reply, but I sure hope so, and appreciate your open optimism on the subject.

basisword 3y ago

Twitter seems to be doing alright. I was a massive skeptic but a year on if I want to see live comments on something mainstream, it's 100% the only place to go. Tumblr is now owned by Automattic - I've no idea how well it's doing but I'm 99% sure that's because I'm no longer an angsty teenager and Tumblr was the place to be for that.

asadotzler 3y ago
Twitter has gone completely to shit. My account was over 13 years old when I deleted it recently. The comments under any interesting post are dominated by blue check losers paying to get their idiot hot takes pushed to the top of the queue. It's a total shit show enough that I've given up 100% on posting and commenting and now only read occasionally with Blue Blocker active and doing my best to scroll down past the literal Nazis and Musk sycophants to replies from reasonable human beings. I go to Twitter like I go to the liquor store in an unfamiliar neighborhood, cautious, and in and out as quickly as I can.