Twitter usage drops
Twitter usage drops
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The Elon Effect Is Real: Twitter Users Are Fleeing
Threads also appears to be a dud.
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What a strange saga. Elon fundamentally miscalculated what Twitter meant to it's users before the acquisition and didn't spend any time trying to figure it out at the start.
The first few months' dramatic changes were like watching a train wreck, so it's no surprise usage was going up. At the time Elon was the chief troll and every day brought some crazy announcement. For some reason that is not a surprise, his posts were always at the top of every feed.
I think today it's just a sad state of affairs and everybody is bored with the antics. You can't build a social media presence on a site like this.
Finally the rebrand to X was clearly a miscalculated attempt to get fleeing users to reconsider, it's just that instead of bring old users back he got current users to reconsider and bail.
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I don't think there was anything calculated about the X rebrand, other than that he wanted to do it all along since he's still angsty about his 'X' never being a major website. And yes, he has never really understood the platform and how much he cares is a mystery.
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The decline was inevitable. What did surprise me, and is I guess a sign of ex-Twitter engineer competence, is that the platform did not succumb to entropy weeks after the first wave of mass layoffs. I expected events like "Twitter down for days because team responsible for renewing SSL certificates no longer exists" or "posting new tweets takes hours because the DBA team was decimated and no one remembered to repartition the tables".
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It is a surprise, especially given the unplanned data center moves and micro-services debacle. I can imagine there were a lot of frantic phone calls from current Twitter engineers to former Twitter engineers begging for help at various points along the way. I wonder if any of the ex-engineers required expensive pre-paid consulting contracts before offering any assistance!
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Twitter’s front end is not the only product that can break.
For instance analytics and ad servers can break without the end user even noticing it. Drop in revenues could be the results of a miscalculation, a corrupted database or anything.
There are so much ways of going wrong that we wouldn’t know about.
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I do agree with you that it’s been more stable than I expected, but it’s not like everything’s been fine. They’ve throttled usage a few times, there was that weekend where they pretty much just shut down. Although lately it’s been a bit better, there were a few weeks there where I couldn’t get twitter links to work more than a third of the time, and videos are still iffy. Plus, we don’t have visibility into all of their operations. I’d have no way of knowing if Twitter Japan was down for twenty minutes on Wednesday. Most people just retry, and small outages are forgot to g about by everyone except the ops center.
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It's become literally unusable. I have to check individual people's accounts through nitter to even get some value out of it.
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Yup go ahead and keep charging to use a service that was free for 16 years.
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I thought that platform was retired a few months back?
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in a surprise, surprising no one, twitter is dying.
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