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It’s going to take a seemless to register platform that offers comparable features to Twitter and then massive accounts switching over and actually leaving Twitter behind.
Right now Threads seems to be the closest, but they lack the feature set Twitter has like search and hashtags so the big accounts only tried it out before running back to what worked for them. Not to mention they don’t have a usable web page for the platform either which alienates a lot of desktop users.
If Threads adds those things in, I fully believe more of the bigger accounts will transition over with their following and it’ll snowball to become a massive platform. Whether it stays a good site remains to be seen, it is Meta after all.
It’s becoming less and less relevant, but corporations need to get off of it. I work in the IT industry, and the MECM community is pretty active on it. I wish there would be an exodus to something else. Unfortunately Microsoft and their engineers still use it heavily.
It will die a slow death as the content creators and news organizations leave it.
It won’t happen overnight. But removing Block and requiring IDs will help speed that along.
They’re requiring ID to sign up?
Damn, I hope that’s true.
No, it’s for a blue check.
Oh man I just had a thought. If they require an ID for auth, someone at the news agency has to validate their ID. If that person gets fired, and decides to use their ID to validate ownership and change the password on the account, malicious activity ensues.
I’m waiting for musk to paywall the whole site tbh.
You know how x’s are. They always find somebody else.
Twitter isn’t technically useless at this time, not yet. Not like, say, YouTube, where actual functionalities were literally flushed down the toilet. If this not making YouTube drop from second place on most popular websites is anything to go by, Twitter’s not really going anywhere, plus being a billionaire, Musk can afford a period of near-inactivity.
You had me until you said YouTube was useless.
I just used it to fix my dishwasher and it saved me hundreds on a service call and repair.
Same for a squealing toilet. Two bucks to replace a single part.
YouTube is awesome.
I mean in the sense of using it as one would use an online community. The ability to comment on videos was thanosed by COPPA, their popularity system is far beyond fixable, and big businesses convince YouTube to take down innocent videos for no reason all the time.
Meh, gotta protect the keeeeeeeeeds.
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we would have to look for clues on social media that imploded in the past, like myspace, hi5, etc
Someone explained pretty well above, visibility and infrastructure to host a massive userbase, also accesability would be key. If people are scared of words they dont understand like decentralized, why switch when centralized worked somehow.
When it stops being relevant in the cultural consciousness.
One of the reasons people use Twitter is for up-to-date news and notifications on events. As official organisations move away from it and the user experience degrades, it will just fade away like MySpace.
You can already see this happening. My guess is that it will just go on slow decline. I would bet Twitter will not be nearly as relevant in a year.
X.com returning 404 every time it’s visited
the exact reason I thought of, but you worded it much better than I would have
People need to be able to use their brains. I see it difficult.
Such massive and old platform won’t lose its userbase just because it undergoes a wild evolution. Look at .tumblr, facebook…
Instead, ask what it takes for eXTwitter to stop being any important.
I actually like Tumblr but due to their horrible app, I just quit it. Deleted my account and removed the app.
Been trying to find an similar platform but to no luck.
Tried ‘Pixelfed’ but their app isn’t great either and the platform seems empty.
Try the „Vernissage“ app for Pixelfed.
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Pixelfed has over 20 million of postings and is under heavy development, I hope you give it another chance in the future :)
Time.
Nuclear war? A world wide blackout? Elon just deleting it?
Elon continuing to not pay bills
Depends.
We need massive 100m follower celebrities to start migrating. News will follow and content creators will adapt. Look at how Taylor Swift move army of people into stadiums globally. That’s the kind of swaying power it needs. But they’ll need proper incentive to actively talk shit about X and ditch it.
