Re:Twitter keeps losing monthly users, so it’s going to stop...
by pjc50 on Wednesday February 13, 2019 @06:57AM
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We're back to "Twitter does not understand its own users". Partly because it's never even attempted to take money from them.
Personally I think Twitter's destruction was triggered by the event it (and many of us) thought of as a great success at the time: the "Arab Spring", Tahrir Square etc. From that point on it increasingly became a political battleground, which is increasingly bot- and sockpuppet- infested, used for targeted harassment, and even from your friends feeds you a steady stream of miserable news.
Meanwhile the people who want to "engage with brands" or just look at cute puppies have moved to Instagram, while the bleeding edge communities are slowly drifting to Mastodon.
There's probably another reckoning due now that Tumblr has banned porn and some of the affected accounts have moved to Twitter; I expect a FOSTA/SESTA-driven purge sometime in the next year or so.
Personally I think Twitter's destruction was triggered by the event it (and many of us) thought of as a great success at the time: the "Arab Spring", Tahrir Square etc. From that point on it increasingly became a political battleground, which is increasingly bot- and sockpuppet- infested, used for targeted harassment, and even from your friends feeds you a steady stream of miserable news.
Meanwhile the people who want to "engage with brands" or just look at cute puppies have moved to Instagram, while the bleeding edge communities are slowly drifting to Mastodon.
There's probably another reckoning due now that Tumblr has banned porn and some of the affected accounts have moved to Twitter; I expect a FOSTA/SESTA-driven purge sometime in the next year or so.