As a disclaimer, I am a passive hater of Twitter/X ie I don’t like it as a toxic social media platform and haven’t used it but I am not asking the users to move to Threads or some other fediverse alternative as a paid promoter. Also I don’t really intend to keep a strict tab on its status since I get any related major developments from other news outlets and Lemmy.

Seeing how it would be almost a year since the acquisition and all the decisions he took, people were speculating how it would only take a few weeks or months for it to shut down under the leadership of Elon Musk. Even I believed so after I saw the introduction of extremely high fees for API access, verification mark etc, thinking it may be under a financial crisis. But even now I am seeing no signs of it actually coming close to shutting down, as seen by the uninterrupted flux of screenshots/memes/posts of tweets in other social media platforms and its continued use for marketing by other brands and announcements by authorities. I did see some posts by Musk stating his issues with Twitter/X, news of his companies’ stocks going down, and some reputable figures announcing their departure from the platform among some other minor related events, however I feel these aren’t concrete evidences for me to come to a conclusion.

Could anyone clarify what the actual status of Twitter/X is, and if it is actually going to collapse anytime soon as rumored? Am I missing out on something crucial, like some secret funding to keep it alive or all of the rumors of it collapsing being just a huge overreaction by the internet in the end?

  • @zoostation
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    531 year ago

    Think about it like Craigslist. It will still be around in 5 years but it won’t be culturally relevant like it was. Just like Craigslist is still technically around, but no one talks about it and I don’t know anyone who uses it.

    Twitter is too big to fail completely in the near future, just like Craigslist was.

    • Maxnmy's
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      131 year ago

      That would be fine if my favorite users leave Twitter when it becomes irrelevant. I don’t mind if Twitter stays up as a containment zone for people stupid enough to pay for a blue check mark.

      • @[email protected]
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        41 year ago

        People go where the audience is. The more people leave, the bigger pressure the rest will feel to follow.

    • @[email protected]
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      81 year ago

      Pfft. Craigslist came back into style where I live. There’s even an instagram account dedicated to reposting Missed Connections locally and sometimes I even see those posts getting reposted to tumblr.