I agree with this

Sucks that cannot view Twitter without signing up.

Read it for years, like people watching and listening to public speaking in a town square, people ranting on soapboxes. Ideas and arguments heard by strangers, some I sought out afterwards.

I will not sign up and do not wish to have an account, I don't wish to interact, like, share or retweet. I did share the link to tweet thousands of times, I bet many people signed up by just sharing link to random tweets, as many do want to repky and make their voice heard and like to be visible. I prefer anon way.

Just sucks to not take an hour or so and read various accounts and find random crazy real time video.

I thi k Elon has made a mistake that could make Twitter

MySpace

soon.

We'll see.

But I won't learn of the news of Twitter demise on Twitter, as previous breaking info I previously found was on Twitter.

Was the plan to kill Twitter all along, as it was so instrumental during presidential election previously. Now will be largely un-read and viral shit on Twitter will only be seen by those behind the wall.

I agree with this:

https://www.theverge.com/2023/7/3/23782607/social-web-public-apps-end-reddit-twitter-mastodon

>>19185807

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FEATURED BY RICHARDLAWLER

I was on

Myspace 2004-2006

Facebook 2006-2014

Twitter 2008-2023

Instagram 2012-2021

Of all the social platforms I've been apart of, Twitter was my favorite followed by Instagram. I left Instagram like I've left all previous platforms before. Once I feel the service is no longer beneficial to me. And I loved Twitter the longest. Well, until Elon took over that is. I deactivated my Twitter account 6 weeks ago and 2 weeks ago it auto-deleted. I've been focusing on Mastodon and Bluesky, but so far neither has really impressed the way Twitter and Instagram did. Is this the end of social media as we know it? I hope not, but I won't worry if it is.

https://www.theverge.com/2023/7/3/23782607/social-web-public-apps-end-reddit-twitter-mastodon

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>>19185838

>>19185807

Is this the end of social media as we know it?

>>19185807

>>19185838

>>19185846

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Ignition1 1 week ago

We've seen this before?

• Something goes big

• Suddenly storing tons and tons of data

• Needs constant uptime or they'll face the wrath of the internet

• Sees its datacentre / cloud / hosting costs skyrocket

• Also now has a finance department, HR, board of directors, facilities maintenance, office leasing, company cars, employee benefits, marketing, internal IT blah blah - i.e. no longer a fluid and flexible 'start up'.

• Needs money

• Relies on advertising money, selling user data or locking content behind ever increasing subscriptions etc. - or all three.

• Face backlash for selling out or no longer being free.

• Dies a gradual death because at it's core, users realise it's either just content storage, a messaging service or a blog/news site (the Holy Trinity of the internet).

Rinse and repeat.

The phenomenon is that some of these content storage / message / blogs got really big - like "too big to fail" big.

Also 'data harvesting' is now very easy It used to be companies will pay for said data. However data querying tools have gotten to the point that you no longer need to pay a research company, who then pays another company - just go straight to source and scrape for free.