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Twitter is dead and Threads is thriving (www.platformer.news)
submitted 1 year ago by dramaticcat@sh.itjust.works to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] Pons_Aelius@kbin.social 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Twitter is dead and Threads is thriving

Neither of those statements are true.

Yes, twitter is in decline with a 15% drop is users in the past year but that is far from dead.

I am no fan of twitter or EM but it still has a long way to fall before we can pull the sheet over its head.

And Reports of threads as thriving seems to be wrong in the other direction.

fb is pushing threads content to fb to boost numbers

TLDR: Indications are that both platforms are losing users but twitter has a much longer way to fall.

[–] LennethBright@artemis.camp 4 points 1 year ago

But Twitter has been massively losing advertisers, and that is what will kill it rather than losing users. Unless Elon goes sunk cost fallacy on us and funds it directly in which case he can keep it alive perpetually.

[–] digger@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 year ago

I could not care less. I'm happy in my little federated corner of the internet.

[–] auf@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Elon should be off-topic here

[–] ram 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Unpopular opinion: MAAMA as a whole isn't relevant to tech as in technology.

[–] auf@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I made a sub to talk about Elon Musk on lemmy. !elonmusk@lemmy.ml

There is a similar sub, but it’s not updated since 1 year ago. !elon@lemmy.ca

[–] CommunityLinkFixer@lemmings.world 1 points 1 year ago

Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn't work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: !elonmusk@lemmy.ml, !elon@lemmy.ca

[–] ekZepp@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Most people just jump from the first "shit wagon on fire" which is Xitter to the next close "shit wagon". Because it was the new "thing" and all the "influencer" are there 🤚😲🤚.