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?
Platforms don’t die like biological things do. They age and change until their core user base is alienated and the platform is then tucked neatly in a corner to operate in the shadows for the next 30 years.
MySpace and LiveJournal as well, but I am 99% LJ is mostly around for the benifits of George R. R. Martin
thought Livejournal got taken over by Russia around 2008ish?
I have a hilarious permanent account on LiveJournal cause I wanted to keep it as a time capsule. This was so long ago, I actually mailed a check to Livejournal to pay for my stupid account to be permanent! So of course it’s just sitting there.
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.
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.
Long answer is no.
When was the last time you heard of MySpace? Guess what, it’s still around.
I just had a look, and it appears to just be sort of music-based clickbait now.
No one actually knows the actual status beside Musk and/or his investors .
AOL and Yahoo are still around, so I don’t think it’ll ever completely disappear. But it’s going to keep becoming more and more irrelevant by the day indefinitely.
Elon has to much Ego to just let it die. He’ll prop it up and keep it running. It’ll just be like Myspace, slowly becoming forgotten.
