The year Twitter died: a special series from The Verge : technology

[–] AnneBonny@lemmy.dbzer0.com 44 points 11 months ago (1 children)

nothing of value was lost

[–] NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 75 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Strongly disagree

Twitter as a venue for influencers to yell at brands and for brands to make risque jokes and for people to have hot takes? Good riddance

Twitter as a venue to allow the people being directly impacted by oppressive regimes, ethnic cleansing, and natural disasters to speak directly to the world? That is very much something that will be missed. My hope is that that would migrate to Mastodon (which would have a lot of benefits) but there is nothing quite so ubiquitous and "simple" that still allows the people being erased by brutal regimes to have a voice.

[–] RTRedreovic@feddit.ch 40 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Twitter as a venue to allow the people being directly impacted by oppressive regimes

Twitter has played a large role in supporting said regimes.

[–] NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 17 points 11 months ago

Yes. That is the nature of an open platform. If you can find a way to keep the bad people off while not preventing the good people from having a choice, the world would love to hear it.

[–] Fredselfish@lemmy.world 12 points 11 months ago

Yep was a great way to reach politicians and people could hsve direct effect on companies. Because when people took their complaints to Twitter it got shit fixed quick.

Elon saw all this people joke but his goal from day one was to destroy the platform and render it useless for us small folk.

Because at one time it was a powerful tool we could of used to organize and get shit done.

[–] spacecowboy@sh.itjust.works 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

You say this as if the entire world used Twitter.

[–] NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 21 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Day to day? no

When shit hits the fan? The Arab Spring is probably the quintessential example. But https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter#Usage_2 and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter_usage are good reads to be aware. Rather than just, ironically, do a drive by hot take for the engagement.

[+] spacecowboy@sh.itjust.works -6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Plenty of people were linked to it, sure, but that would be the same without Twitter, too. Twitter is not a new type of service nor is it unique. It’s a flavour.

I think you are stuck in your own bias.

[–] NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Yes. If a different service had the same market share and the same base concept it would fulfill the same role.

But twitter is what fulfilled that role in this timeline. And, as many of us have been lamenting since the chudstain bought it, that is a very major loss.

[–] furzegulo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 11 months ago

so long and you will not be missed

[–] DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 11 months ago

How about murdered

[–] BlackSkinnedJew@lemmynsfw.com 6 points 11 months ago

In my personal case I will not miss it.. go fuck yourself twitter rot in hell.

[–] Squizzy@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago

Entertain the Elk on the YouTube does a great series on this format.

[–] spudwart@spudwart.com 2 points 11 months ago

[+] ForestOrca@kbin.social -6 points 11 months ago (2 children)

"the year twitter died" is passive, and generally not a preferred way to write this, as there are specific actions by one (EM) or several individuals. The active phrase, "the year twitter was killed", is more reflective of the actual situation, and thus better communication. FTFY.

[–] z500@startrek.website 11 points 11 months ago (1 children)

But "was killed" is literally a passive construction

[–] nantsuu@kbin.social 8 points 11 months ago

And "died" is active too

[–] djsoren19@yiffit.net 7 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

but this is the news, and as much fun as it might be to point fingers, that could get the office in trouble. Better to just use the passive voice, avoid ruffling any feathers, and maintain neutrality. AP style guide says their headline is fine.

[+] onlinepersona@programming.dev -7 points 11 months ago (4 children)

200M users and it's dead? OK then...

[–] AlternatePersonMan@lemmy.world 18 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Trustworthiness in the platform is dead. Musk uses it like his personal sandbox. Advertisers are quickly pulling out. I don't know how they're possibly financially staying afloat.

Twitter was so engrained in communication that it's difficult for many users to leave (sports, etc.). So, I agree, it's not dead yet, but Musk seems to be doing everything he can to poison the well.

I can't imagine how removing the communications department from a company that specializes in communication seemed like a good idea...

[–] LWD@lemm.ee 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

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[–] swag_money@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago

it's literally called x now

[–] agraves@lm.possum.city 3 points 11 months ago

Twitter's userbase went down by 20% while all other big tech platforms had a ~5% increase

[–] LifeInOregon@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

200m active users on a platform that has 1.4 billion accounts? Okay.

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