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The Year Twitter Died

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Re: The Year Twitter Died

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Post by Stokley »

stolenmerch wrote: post #2

"...leaving the platform virtually unusable for those who remained." Sorry, but what? I use it everyday and it's fine. Oh I'm sure some of the author's favorite people decided to switch to mastadon or blue sky or something, but to claim the platform is wildly destabilized is hilariously hyperbolic.

I agree that it feels like these press outlets have such a huge bias against Elon. And I definitely think that post-acquisition, the site has had more eyes on it than since the Arab Spring. But I'm not sure if the platform can get out from under its monetary issues

Re: The Year Twitter Died

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Post by jfengel »

hilbert42 wrote: post #5

As a someone who doesn't use Twitter I've often wondered what its appeal is (or had been) for so many. Whenever a link lands me there I find tweets constrained by limits on the maximum text allowed. One can hardly state one's case let alone develop an argument in support of it.

The length constraints are precisely the appeal of Twitter.

On the one hand, it does force you to be concise. There is a certain merit to having to distil your thoughts into a tight space -- perhaps even poetic.

On the flip side, people already have incredibly short attention spans. Nobody wants to read a well-stated case. They want a bunch of vapid one-liners, preferably reaffirming their preconceptions. Twitter is an endless stream of microscopic dopamine hits.

If you wanna develop your argument, go send a letter to the editor of the newspaper, grampa. Everybody else is looking for the next great thing, which will make Xitter look positively verbose. We've already got the Tikketytoks, but who the hell has time for three whole minutes?

Re: The Year Twitter Died

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Post by hilbert42 »

jfengel wrote: post #12
hilbert42 wrote: post #5

As a someone who doesn't use Twitter I've often wondered what its appeal is (or had been) for so many. Whenever a link lands me there I find tweets constrained by limits on the maximum text allowed. One can hardly state one's case let alone develop an argument in support of it.

The length constraints are precisely the appeal of Twitter. On the one hand, it does force you to be concise. There is a certain merit to having to distil your thoughts into a tight space -- perhaps even poetic. On the flip side, people already have incredibly short attention spans. Nobody wants to read a well-stated case. They want a bunch of vapid one-liners, preferably reaffirming their preconceptions. Twitter is…

"Nobody wants to read a well-stated case."

Since when? Nobody means nought, and I know I am but one.

"Twitter is an endless stream of microscopic dopamine hits."

Right, but what happens when the synapses die from overstimulation?

Edit: it's just occurred to me that if what you say is fact then 'Xitter' is an efficient ADHD generator.

Re: The Year Twitter Died

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Post by rvz »

richbell wrote: post #8
rvz wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

GitHub has 100M+ DAUs and falls over more times than Twitter / X does or any other social network each week. But of course the media obviously doesn't report GitHub falling apart or it being 'a dying social network'. A single speed bump or hiccup at Twitter / X and it is all over the news with the hyperboles and silly articles like this one. It's clear that a different standard of uptime and stability is being applie…

That's a bizarre comparison. GitHub has gigabytes of pushes and pulls every minute, runs complex user-programmable workflows, and is the backbone of many of the world's companies.

> That's a bizarre comparison.

It isn't and it is a valid comparison.

> GitHub has gigabytes of pushes and pulls every minute, runs complex user-programmable workflows, and is the backbone of many of the world's companies.

You forgot that all of this is being run by Microsoft which makes this excuse even worse than Twitter / X's situation given the streams, spaces, videos, and over 500M+ posts per day.

I would expect GitHub to have a much better record in uptime with the help of Microsoft after the acquisition. It has gotten even worse.

Re: The Year Twitter Died

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Post by richbell »

rvz wrote: post #14
richbell wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's a bizarre comparison. GitHub has gigabytes of pushes and pulls every minute, runs complex user-programmable workflows, and is the backbone of many of the world's companies.

> That's a bizarre comparison. It isn't and it is a valid comparison. > GitHub has gigabytes of pushes and pulls every minute, runs complex user-programmable workflows, and is the backbone of many of the world's companies. You forgot that all of this is being run by Microsoft which makes this excuse even worse than Twitter / X's situation given the streams, spaces, videos, and over 500M+ posts per day. I would expect…

> It isn't and it is a valid comparison.

You can say that but that doesn't make it true. GitHub is a massively complex behemoth orders of magnitude larger than Twitter, it simply isnt comparable. It also regularly gets shat on for its poor uptime.

Re: The Year Twitter Died

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Post by rvz »

richbell wrote: post #15
rvz wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> That's a bizarre comparison. It isn't and it is a valid comparison. > GitHub has gigabytes of pushes and pulls every minute, runs complex user-programmable workflows, and is the backbone of many of the world's companies. You forgot that all of this is being run by Microsoft which makes this excuse even worse than Twitter / X's situation given the streams, spaces, videos, and over 500M+ posts per day. I would expect…

> It isn't and it is a valid comparison. You can say that but that doesn't make it true. GitHub is a massively complex behemoth orders of magnitude larger than Twitter, it simply isnt comparable. It also regularly gets shat on for its poor uptime.

It is comparable and creating more excuses to defend GitHub’s horrible uptime especially with access to Microsoft’s resources is quite frankly laughable.

With Microsoft, GitHub should have a far higher uptime than Twitter / X. But GitHub even has a worse track record of uptime with less users than Twitter / X does.

With MS footing the bill, there really is zero excuses for GitHub falling over frequently and deservedly gets shat on under that same standard of uptime that Twitter / X is under.

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