[throwuwu]

> no one said it would fall off the earth immediately

This is very disingenuous, there were hordes of people claiming it would be down in 24 hours, 48 hours, after the weekend etc. and there are still masses of people still saying it won’t last two weeks. At this point so many people have cried wolf loudly and repeatedly that I think the best option is to believe no one unless they are reporting first hand facts that can be independently verified. Everything else is just hot air.

[lamontcg]

And we know that social media amplifies extreme voices.

[throwntoday]

IIRC an entire team within the org resigned with a member claiming "twitter cannot run without us" over a week ago.

[lamontcg]

That isn't a counterexample.

[dspillett]

> > > The initial argument was that twitter would not be able to function without much of the staff that were fired,

> > You are missing out some important nuance there: no one said it would fall off the earth immediately,

> This is very disingenuous,

Fair, I matched hyperbole (the implication that a majority were saying something) with hyperbole (staying no one was).

Let's go with no one with a clue who is unbiased by direct connection.

> there were hordes of people claiming it would be down in 24 hours, 48 hours, after the weekend etc

If this pot may comment on the a kettle's underside for a moment: "hordes" may be as disingenuous "no one". It was said by some angrily¹ on their way out and repeated and amplified by the mob that is Twitter² users.

And that outgoing team didn't say it would fall down in any time frame IIRC: just that things could not run without them. I would read this as a medium/long term view, the social media amplifier read it as "it dies in 3, 2, ...".

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[1] rightly so, but the emotion does reduce the ability to maintain objective reasoning

[2] one of the selection of reasons I have for not using Twitter aside from occasionally looking at a message linked elsewhere: it is too full of certain types who think Twitter is a good idea!

[wyclif]

Yes, and you can easily find these tweets right now with a search. People claiming it would crash and burn within a week or less.