[allenbrunson]

yep, i agree with this. twitter is on a long slow slide to irrelevance, but threads will not be the thing that scoops up all the refugees.

twitter never worked for me, but i can see its appeal to those who did like it. it was engaging. it was the best opportunity ordinary people had to interact with celebrities. it had an irreverent quality that invited whimsy.

(all that stuff is either completely destroyed now, or almost so, but that's what it had in its heyday.)

my prediction is that there will be no "new twitter." it was the product of a particular time and place that will not be repeated. its users will disperse to a lot of other platforms, none of which will fill the exact same niche that twitter did.

[whywhywhywhy]

> twitter is on a long slow slide to irrelevance

What makes you say that? The current alternatives seem a bit of a joke for anyone but the most extremely opinionated (in a very specific way) users when you compare them side by side.

Didn't it break engagement records twice in the past few months.

[allenbrunson]

it is becoming irrelevant because the new regime is not prioritizing what was good about it. dismantling trust and safety is just one example of that.

"engagment records" ... yeah, i am pretty sure we have nobody's word for that except musk's, and he lies constantly. and even if that's true, so what? it is probably gawkers, just amazed, hardly believing what they're seeing. (in the few times i've paid attention to twitter lately, that was always my reason.)

likewise, people are pointing to the millions of sign-ups on threads.net as if that is proof that it will succeed. i don't think it proves any such thing. zuckerberg's long history of sucking the joy out of everything will ensure they will all get bored and leave.

[Etrnl_President]

Nu-uh! I don't lie.

[whywhywhywhy]

Seems like you’re just happier believing that Elons a liar or whatever and the platforms on the way out than dealing with that it might be doing fine.

Personally I’ve found it funnier and more engaging than ever before while Bluesky feels already dead and Threads is just brand cringe. Twitter doesn’t feel in danger at all after seeing what the best the competition have to offer.