The Year Twitter Died
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The Year Twitter Died
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#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.
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#4"...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.
Things do regularly break, though. Outgoing links were broken a few days ago.
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#5As 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.
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#6"...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.
Things do regularly break, though. Outgoing links were broken a few days ago.
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 applied only to Twitter / X since Elon bought it.
Quite a weird obsessive delusion for tabloid journalists such as the Verge to continue screaming the so-called death of Twitter / X since last year they all predicted for it to collapse a year ago and here we are a year later, it is still standing.
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#7As 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.
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#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
Things do regularly break, though. Outgoing links were broken a few days ago.
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.
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#9"...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.
Things do regularly break, though. Outgoing links were broken a few days ago.
In 2015 The Atlantic wrote a glowing puff piece on how unstable Twitter was as if it was almost cute.
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/01/the-s...
Now if outgoing links are broken for a few minutes it's "proof" of Elon's incompetence and how he's probably right-wing or something. If you don't believe that read the article The Year Twitter Died. C'mon.
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#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
Things do regularly break, though. Outgoing links were broken a few days ago.
In 2015 The Atlantic wrote a glowing puff piece on how unstable Twitter was as if it was almost cute. https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/01/the-s... Now if outgoing links are broken for a few minutes it's "proof" of Elon's incompetence and how he's probably right-wing or something. If you don't believe that read the article The Year Twitter Died. C'mon.
Despite any personal opinions, it seems these "journalists" lack objectivity, resorting to copying and pasting others' viewpoints to shape the narrative.