X glitch wipes out most pictures and links tweeted before December 2014::Ellen’s famous ‘most retweeted’ selfie from the 2014 Oscars has had its image restored, but most old tweets have broken short links instead of the media or links that should be there.

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114 points

Is anyone still on twitter? Why?

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88 points

Because of this fucking online press embedding tweets into every article, even weather reports

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60 points

Momentum. It’s still the most popular platform for many niches and it will stay popular as long as it’s popular…

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And English speakers are only a fraction of the user base. Current events in the US social media bubble barely penetrate the general public in the US, let alone across international and language barriers.

It’s probably the largest social media platform in Japan, for example.

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5 points

It's probably the largest social media platform in Japan, for example.

Really? 😯 I’m surprised they don’t have a local solution, that’s interesting!

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3 points

Also reach and variety of users. Bussiness and self-employed people need it.

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1 point

I think you overestimate the user base.

Unless you happen to be in one of the countries or niches where Twitter is really popular, you won’t reach a relevant amount of people on there.

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“It will stay popular as long as it’s popular…”

You dont say? Yall are making it popular. If you y’all stopped using it, then it will not be popular and it would die.

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I haven’t deleted my account - it’s 17 years old! But I also haven’t posted in a couple months other than saying I’ve moved to Mastodon. I said I’d hold on to the bitter end & I will. I’m not leaving, they’ll have to evict me.

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I’m not leaving, they’ll have to evict me.

But… Why?

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It’s the principle of the thing. I’m not going to delete myself, pretend I wasn’t there for all those years. The record stands. (Except for any media posted prior to 2014, which now exists only on my personal cloud storage, I guess.)

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I can’t speak for the previous comment but in my case they wanted me to remove 2fa (or pay to keep it) just to log in

I didn’t remove it, and I’ve never been back

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2 points

shitposting mostly

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Because I like it.

Hope that clears things up for you.

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Yes, but you’re not a celebrity, government official, weather station or corporate marketing office. The question is why they remain on ex-Twitter when they really need a more stable platform.

It’s fine that common folk like Gab or Parler or Truth Social, but they’re not great for official business, And now, neither is the ex.

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Weird response.

The question wasn’t “why are you the celebrity on twitter?”

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