The year Twitter died: a special series from The Verge

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• AnneBonny@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  nothing of value was lost

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  • NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    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.

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    • RTRedreovic@feddit.ch ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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

      Twitter has played a large role in supporting said regimes.

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    • Fredselfish@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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    • spacecowboy@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      You say this as if the entire world used Twitter.

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• cozy_agent@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  They write so many articles on Twitter it will never die

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  • hasnt_seen_goonies@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I think they’ve said that Twitter and musk stories get a lot of traffic.

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• furzegulo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  so long and you will not be missed

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• BlackSkinnedJew@lemmynsfw.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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

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• ForestOrca@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  "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.

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  • z500@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    But “was killed” is literally a passive construction

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    • nantsuu@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      And "died" is active too

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  • djsoren19@yiffit.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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• hal_5700X@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Hey everyone! It’s the yearly “Twitter is dead” article.

  I love how people are now saying Twitter sucks now. But the problem is Twitter always sucks. Yes even under Jack Dorsey it sucked.

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• Squizzy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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

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• onlinepersona@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  200M users and it’s dead? OK then…

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  • AlternatePersonMan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    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…

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  • LifeInOregon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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

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  • swag_money@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    it’s literally called x now

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  • agraves@lm.possum.city ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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

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• spudwart@spudwart.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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