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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.