It’s aggravating that Twitter is still treated as the public square when half of the public has abandoned it.
Even with a mountain of earned media (AKA free publicity), loosening restrictions and enforcement on bot accounts and trolls, and tens of billions of dollars of new investment, It’s dropping rapidly off the social map. It’s less popular than Instagram, Telegram, Weibo, and Facebook Messenger (not Facebook - Facebook Messenger). Every time I see a news article promoting it I cringe. When I see people who should know better sticking around to prop up the dying platform it’s beyond disappointing.
At it’s height there were twitter accounts for something like 1/4 - 1/3 of the population in most developed countries. That is huge, but it was never the universal adoption that heavy users seemed to think it was.
It generated/generates news because it’s easy to see and short enough to digest quickly, not because it’s a representative sample.
Mark Hamill is a treasure, but why can’t he be on Mastodon? George Takei has 420k followers, and he could too.
Because Trekkies understand Tech and Warries understand Religion.
Star Trek: mostly hard sci-fi
Star Wars: fantasy space opera with magic powers
It’s aggravating that Twitter is still treated as the public square when half of the public has abandoned it.
Even with a mountain of earned media (AKA free publicity), loosening restrictions and enforcement on bot accounts and trolls, and tens of billions of dollars of new investment, It’s dropping rapidly off the social map. It’s less popular than Instagram, Telegram, Weibo, and Facebook Messenger (not Facebook - Facebook Messenger). Every time I see a news article promoting it I cringe. When I see people who should know better sticking around to prop up the dying platform it’s beyond disappointing.
At it’s height there were twitter accounts for something like 1/4 - 1/3 of the population in most developed countries. That is huge, but it was never the universal adoption that heavy users seemed to think it was.
It generated/generates news because it’s easy to see and short enough to digest quickly, not because it’s a representative sample.