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Twitter feels like the exception there. They still have a lot of users, but they aren't exactly making money. Anecdotally, it's reputation is also far worse th

Twitter feels like the exception there. They still have a lot of users, but they aren't exactly making money. Anecdotally, it's reputation is also far worse than other social media companies. It's hard to go into the office, family gatherings, etc, without hearing people joke about how awful Twitter has become, whereas with other sites I usually only hear that sentiment from other long-time users deeper inside my own bubble.

dylan604 3y ago
The fact that people continue to call it Twitter and refuse to call it X is probably my favorite example of its not "doing just fine".
- jazzyjackson 3y ago
  the fact that im always hearing about it leads me to believe its not dead
  - yifanl 3y ago
    I heard a lot about that Boeing plane in Alaska too. Indeed, I heard a lot about it than the flight my parents were on that week, which by all accounts, went fine.
- kyleyeats 3y ago
  It's actually a sign that people care. Branding "disasters" have cemented the public's love for lots of brands, including Coke. In a few months, Elon will say that X is the umbrella payments network and Twitter is one of the products on that network.
- jrochkind1 3y ago
  The fact that the company insists the product is now called X, but the domain is still twitter.com (x.com redirects to it, not vice versa) and much of their documentation still says twitter too... means something or other.
- nunez 3y ago
  I love how the media refers to Twitter as "X, formerly known as Twitter" several months later
AlexandrB 3y ago
What's funny is that Twitter has always had a reputation as the dumpster fire of social networks, at least among people I talk to. Something about the, traditionally, short-form posts and the user base means it's a constant mess of drama and flamewars. I think it's gotten worse since Musk took over. But it hasn't moved in "the rankings" compared to other social networks. I wonder if Threads and Bluesky will eventually be as nasty as old Twitter of if they'll manage to foster better discussions somehow.
- soylentcola 3y ago
  Yeah...I always looked at it like "the comments section". For a while, everyone joked about Youtube saying "never read the comments section, man!" Or you only need to look at the comments section on any large media outlet (newspaper, tv, etc) article to see the same thing. Person + anonymity + audience, etc. Twitter was like the comments section for the entire internet. So many people. So much trying to be funny or witty or provocative. Such expected results.
- SleepilyLimping 3y ago
  >I wonder if Threads and Bluesky will eventually be as nasty as old Twitter of if they'll manage to foster better discussions somehow. Both of those places seem to have gotten their initial swell of "actually using it" users from anti-Twitter/Musk people and pro-leftist/progressives. They also seem very militant about making sure that they are the gatekeepers/rulemakers of these new kingdoms.
- CM30 3y ago
  Threads is already going that direction. It's a lot more negative and cynical than it was when it started out, and seems to be slowly morphing into more of a Twitter like experience than an Instagram like one. Not sure about BlueSky, though I may not be following active enough people there to notice any change in atmosphere.
- babypuncher 3y ago
  Before Musk took over, I ranked it above Facebook. It still wasn't "good", but it wasn't a privacy nightmare to the degree that Facebook was, and you could at least trust that things like blue checkmarks actually meant something.
mlinhares 3y ago
Amazed that your bubble still talks about twitter, most of my friends don't even know it still exists and don't really care. It definitely feels like twitter has a very specific demographic that is much smaller than all other social networks.
timeon 3y ago
> but they aren't exactly making money Banning 'freespeech' here... allowing it there... It was not bought to directly make money. It is still useful tool for people that invested in it.

dylan604 3y ago

The fact that people continue to call it Twitter and refuse to call it X is probably my favorite example of its not "doing just fine".

jazzyjackson 3y ago
the fact that im always hearing about it leads me to believe its not dead
- yifanl 3y ago
  I heard a lot about that Boeing plane in Alaska too. Indeed, I heard a lot about it than the flight my parents were on that week, which by all accounts, went fine.
kyleyeats 3y ago
It's actually a sign that people care. Branding "disasters" have cemented the public's love for lots of brands, including Coke. In a few months, Elon will say that X is the umbrella payments network and Twitter is one of the products on that network.
jrochkind1 3y ago
The fact that the company insists the product is now called X, but the domain is still twitter.com (x.com redirects to it, not vice versa) and much of their documentation still says twitter too... means something or other.
nunez 3y ago
I love how the media refers to Twitter as "X, formerly known as Twitter" several months later

AlexandrB 3y ago

What's funny is that Twitter has always had a reputation as the dumpster fire of social networks, at least among people I talk to. Something about the, traditionally, short-form posts and the user base means it's a constant mess of drama and flamewars. I think it's gotten worse since Musk took over. But it hasn't moved in "the rankings" compared to other social networks. I wonder if Threads and Bluesky will eventually be as nasty as old Twitter of if they'll manage to foster better discussions somehow.

soylentcola 3y ago
Yeah...I always looked at it like "the comments section". For a while, everyone joked about Youtube saying "never read the comments section, man!" Or you only need to look at the comments section on any large media outlet (newspaper, tv, etc) article to see the same thing. Person + anonymity + audience, etc. Twitter was like the comments section for the entire internet. So many people. So much trying to be funny or witty or provocative. Such expected results.
SleepilyLimping 3y ago
>I wonder if Threads and Bluesky will eventually be as nasty as old Twitter of if they'll manage to foster better discussions somehow. Both of those places seem to have gotten their initial swell of "actually using it" users from anti-Twitter/Musk people and pro-leftist/progressives. They also seem very militant about making sure that they are the gatekeepers/rulemakers of these new kingdoms.
CM30 3y ago
Threads is already going that direction. It's a lot more negative and cynical than it was when it started out, and seems to be slowly morphing into more of a Twitter like experience than an Instagram like one. Not sure about BlueSky, though I may not be following active enough people there to notice any change in atmosphere.
babypuncher 3y ago
Before Musk took over, I ranked it above Facebook. It still wasn't "good", but it wasn't a privacy nightmare to the degree that Facebook was, and you could at least trust that things like blue checkmarks actually meant something.

mlinhares 3y ago

Amazed that your bubble still talks about twitter, most of my friends don't even know it still exists and don't really care. It definitely feels like twitter has a very specific demographic that is much smaller than all other social networks.

timeon 3y ago

> but they aren't exactly making money Banning 'freespeech' here... allowing it there... It was not bought to directly make money. It is still useful tool for people that invested in it.