Twitter keeps losing monthly users, so it’s going to stop sharing how many

Re:Twitter keeps losing monthly users, so it’s going to stop... by mikestew on Wednesday February 13, 2019 @11:49AM (#19154405)

Ya know, I thought I'd go that route, but I must have chosen poorly. Many might have held the line for a while, but eventually degraded to about a 20:1 cat/food picture:"what I followed you for in the first place." But they owe me nothing, they can do as they please.

And perhaps that's the problem, perhaps Twitter was better suited to having a dozen, fifty or so people that you follow and who follow you. People you might not know intimately, but at least kinda know. So while you might have to put up with "awww, look at Ms. Sylvia Plath, isn't she the cutest cat?" on ocassion, at least you might have some context. IOW, the way I viewed Twitter back in the day was a lot more personal and less public than it turned out to be.

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Re:Twitter keeps losing monthly users, so it’s going to stop... by mc32 on Wednesday February 13, 2019 @12:19PM (#19154655)

You’re describing using Twitter initially the way WhatsApp was initially envisioned: broadcasting statuses to friends —which kind of worked but the problem is was it was either DM or broadcast, no group or list concept to keep things fenced in.

So, I basically use it as a broadcast listening platform tuned to chosen sources and works well in that regard.

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