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  • gsa32@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    Does anyone else genuinely think Twitter/X will die anytime soon with the latest changes Elmo is making?

    • thehatfox@lemmy.world
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      2 years ago

      Platforms rarely completely die, as in they shut down, they just become irrelevant. Digg still around despite being long supplanted by Reddit, MySpace still exists after everyone went to Facebook, but nobody cares about them anymore.

      Twitter/X will end up the same, unless some real catastrophic happens financially or legally.

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        2 years ago

        The question is, will it remain that way in the coming years?

        MSN messenger was at one point the world’s most used communicator app too.

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        2 years ago

        Because of how Elmo is running Twitter/X

        I still think it’ll take 3-5 years before it “dies”

        • Nuuskis9@feddit.nl
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          2 years ago

          Will Threads ever come popular?

          I never had account in Twitter, but for me it looks like it’s become a honeypot for right-wing useful idiots. And it has gained a lots of attraction simply because the censorship was ended in just one night.

    • picassowary@lemmy.world
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      2 years ago

      depends on your definition of “die”. it is not going to go offline, but it will certainly cease to be of any moderate utility to most people and will cease to have any meaningful cultural impact within a couple of years at this rate