Re:Twitter, when the wall came down
by lapcat on Sunday November 06, 2022 @08:23AM
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> There is NO viable competition that exists for Twitter in same format.
This doesn't necessarily matter. From the blog post:
> I keep wondering about “what is going to replace Twitter”, but I am increasingly of the belief that this is the wrong question, that no single thing is going to replace Twitter. That is, Twitter as an idea — a single social platform catering to all demographics and uses — will become like the evening nightly news or the morning newspaper: a relic from a bygone era.
Twitter is a way to spend time. People can leave Twitter and spend their time in other ways, without joining a service like Twitter. The world existed before Twitter existed, and the world will continue to exist after Twitter doesn't.
This doesn't necessarily matter. From the blog post:
> I keep wondering about “what is going to replace Twitter”, but I am increasingly of the belief that this is the wrong question, that no single thing is going to replace Twitter. That is, Twitter as an idea — a single social platform catering to all demographics and uses — will become like the evening nightly news or the morning newspaper: a relic from a bygone era.
Twitter is a way to spend time. People can leave Twitter and spend their time in other ways, without joining a service like Twitter. The world existed before Twitter existed, and the world will continue to exist after Twitter doesn't.