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Maybe I am missing the point, but it seems like everyone will leave Twitter when it stops working. At that point, the traffic will be diverted and a few platfo

by baking 3y ago

Maybe I am missing the point, but it seems like everyone will leave Twitter when it stops working. At that point, the traffic will be diverted and a few platforms will get most of it. We are just in that transition stage where platforms are trying to stay ahead of the pack so they can be the eventual winner. At the moment, most of them are probably hoping Twitter stays around a little bit longer so they won't shit the bed when the time comes.

nomel 3y ago
Why would Twitter stop working? Do you mean technically/functionally, or some sort of “sustainably” like from ads getting to bad/people leaving?
- bhaney 3y ago
  > Why would Twitter stop working? Are you saying it hasn't stopped working for you? I'd say >50% of my visits to Twitter over the last few months have been met with an error page and a 500 status. A lot of other people who don't have Twitter accounts seem to have the same experience.
  - Turing_Machine 3y ago
    > I'd say >50% of my visits to Twitter over the last few months have been met with an error page and a 500 status. I haven't seen that in many years, personally, either before or after Musk took over.
- mcphage 3y ago
  Its reliability over the past year has dropped quite a bit. But the worst change is one you didn’t mention—it’s not technical, or ads, it’s the promotion of responses based on playing for Twitter Blue. The quality of responses to any popular post has turned into a wave of garbage. Admittedly, the ads are also much worse. For a while I was getting late night infomercial quality ads, and now the most common ad I get now on Twitter is for a box of tissues. I don’t know what sounds worse—that a company that makes novelty tissue boxes is blowing a ton of money on Twitter ads, or that they’re not blowing a ton of money on Twitter ads because the price floor has bottomed out.
- CM30 3y ago
  Maybe Musk shuts the site down because it's not making money anymore/he doesn't want to keep running it? I personally see that as the most likely cause of Twitter dying.
  - baking 3y ago
    If you watched his DealBook Summit interview it certainly seems like that's the way it is going.
AlexandrB 3y ago
As far as I'm concerned, it stopped working when Tweetbot stopped working.
add-sub-mul-div 3y ago
I agree, let the eternal September stay on Twitter for another while. Early adopters and trend setters are mapping out a post-Twitter landscape and that should have time to work itself out organically. But I don't think it should take the form of a single monolithic winner. I spend my time now divided among more sites than before and I think it's for the best.
jemmyw 3y ago
It doesn't work now, at least for one of its purposes. You can no longer read the thread without being logged in. That reduces its value when it's linked from articles or hn or wherever. For people like myself who'd read the occasional thread but never post so never logged in, twitter links are now pointless. Sure you could say they've put the value behind a log in so people get an account, but I think that's a bit backwards, I just avoid the links now. Which is fine because more and more threads and mastodon discussions are posted, which let you see the thread without logging in or engaging further.

by baking 3y ago

nomel 3y ago

Why would Twitter stop working? Do you mean technically/functionally, or some sort of “sustainably” like from ads getting to bad/people leaving?

bhaney 3y ago
> Why would Twitter stop working? Are you saying it hasn't stopped working for you? I'd say >50% of my visits to Twitter over the last few months have been met with an error page and a 500 status. A lot of other people who don't have Twitter accounts seem to have the same experience.
- Turing_Machine 3y ago
  > I'd say >50% of my visits to Twitter over the last few months have been met with an error page and a 500 status. I haven't seen that in many years, personally, either before or after Musk took over.
mcphage 3y ago
Its reliability over the past year has dropped quite a bit. But the worst change is one you didn’t mention—it’s not technical, or ads, it’s the promotion of responses based on playing for Twitter Blue. The quality of responses to any popular post has turned into a wave of garbage. Admittedly, the ads are also much worse. For a while I was getting late night infomercial quality ads, and now the most common ad I get now on Twitter is for a box of tissues. I don’t know what sounds worse—that a company that makes novelty tissue boxes is blowing a ton of money on Twitter ads, or that they’re not blowing a ton of money on Twitter ads because the price floor has bottomed out.
CM30 3y ago
Maybe Musk shuts the site down because it's not making money anymore/he doesn't want to keep running it? I personally see that as the most likely cause of Twitter dying.
- baking 3y ago
  If you watched his DealBook Summit interview it certainly seems like that's the way it is going.

AlexandrB 3y ago

As far as I'm concerned, it stopped working when Tweetbot stopped working.

add-sub-mul-div 3y ago

I agree, let the eternal September stay on Twitter for another while. Early adopters and trend setters are mapping out a post-Twitter landscape and that should have time to work itself out organically. But I don't think it should take the form of a single monolithic winner. I spend my time now divided among more sites than before and I think it's for the best.

jemmyw 3y ago

It doesn't work now, at least for one of its purposes. You can no longer read the thread without being logged in. That reduces its value when it's linked from articles or hn or wherever. For people like myself who'd read the occasional thread but never post so never logged in, twitter links are now pointless. Sure you could say they've put the value behind a log in so people get an account, but I think that's a bit backwards, I just avoid the links now. Which is fine because more and more threads and mastodon discussions are posted, which let you see the thread without logging in or engaging further.