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> Didn’t seem to matter for Twitter, sadly Mostly b cause the goalposts got moved and they don't care anymore about a bunch of things. But yes, it bled users t

> Didn’t seem to matter for Twitter, sadly Mostly b cause the goalposts got moved and they don't care anymore about a bunch of things. But yes, it bled users to other platforms but seem still stable-ish.

dartos 2y ago
Twitter seems as strong as it did in 2016. Granted the reasons why are different. Musk has a cult of personality around him that turns anything he touches into gold. But laying off tons of talented people from Twitter didn’t kill it… that’s just what it is.
- SoftTalker 2y ago
  Yep I still see people posting links to X every day, I never see Bluesky or any other "alternative" microblog platform.
- ghaff 2y ago
  >Twitter seems as strong as it did in 2016. It's a ton less interesting for me. A fraction of the people I follow post any longer and there's even less interaction. Maybe something I check into once or twice a week these days.
ghaff 2y ago
And as someone who has accounts on both Bluesky and Mastodon, I see very little activity there--as well as much less on Twitter/X. Musk basically succeeded in killing much of the micro-blogging (or whatever you call it) ecosystem. A lot of people have just largely walked away from the whole thing. And maybe that's OK on net although something ended up lost.
- Sharlin 2y ago
  I think many people have been super tired of the entire format and all the terrible interaction that it breeds, but didn't have a good enough reason to quit (because after all, there still was and is a community there, plus the dopamine fix of course) until now.
  - ghaff 2y ago
    100% agree. A lot of people were probably staying on and regularly using Twitter out of momentum. And when Musk came along, their interactions probably decreased drastically because so many people dropped out, or they just themselves decided this was a good forcing function to largely leave. None of the alternatives were especially good. So the whole format is a shadow of its former self--at least in the tech space (and I avoid the politics).

dartos 2y ago

Twitter seems as strong as it did in 2016. Granted the reasons why are different. Musk has a cult of personality around him that turns anything he touches into gold. But laying off tons of talented people from Twitter didn’t kill it… that’s just what it is.

SoftTalker 2y ago
Yep I still see people posting links to X every day, I never see Bluesky or any other "alternative" microblog platform.
ghaff 2y ago
>Twitter seems as strong as it did in 2016. It's a ton less interesting for me. A fraction of the people I follow post any longer and there's even less interaction. Maybe something I check into once or twice a week these days.

ghaff 2y ago

And as someone who has accounts on both Bluesky and Mastodon, I see very little activity there--as well as much less on Twitter/X. Musk basically succeeded in killing much of the micro-blogging (or whatever you call it) ecosystem. A lot of people have just largely walked away from the whole thing. And maybe that's OK on net although something ended up lost.

Sharlin 2y ago
I think many people have been super tired of the entire format and all the terrible interaction that it breeds, but didn't have a good enough reason to quit (because after all, there still was and is a community there, plus the dopamine fix of course) until now.
- ghaff 2y ago
  100% agree. A lot of people were probably staying on and regularly using Twitter out of momentum. And when Musk came along, their interactions probably decreased drastically because so many people dropped out, or they just themselves decided this was a good forcing function to largely leave. None of the alternatives were especially good. So the whole format is a shadow of its former self--at least in the tech space (and I avoid the politics).