The year Twitter died: a special series from The Verge
The year Twitter died: a special series from The Verge
The platform was a news accelerator, a tool of mass harassment, and an infinite joke machine.
nothing of value was lost
Strongly disagree
Twitter as a venue for influencers to yell at brands and for brands to make risque jokes and for people to have hot takes? Good riddance
Twitter as a venue to allow the people being directly impacted by oppressive regimes, ethnic cleansing, and natural disasters to speak directly to the world? That is very much something that will be missed. My hope is that that would migrate to Mastodon (which would have a lot of benefits) but there is nothing quite so ubiquitous and "simple" that still allows the people being erased by brutal regimes to have a voice.
Yep was a great way to reach politicians and people could hsve direct effect on companies. Because when people took their complaints to Twitter it got shit fixed quick.
Elon saw all this people joke but his goal from day one was to destroy the platform and render it useless for us small folk.
Because at one time it was a powerful tool we could of used to organize and get shit done.
They write so many articles on Twitter it will never die
I think they've said that Twitter and musk stories get a lot of traffic.
so long and you will not be missed
In my personal case I will not miss it.. go fuck yourself twitter rot in hell.
How about murdered
Entertain the Elk on the YouTube does a great series on this format.
Hey everyone! It's the yearly "Twitter is dead" article.
I love how people are now saying Twitter sucks now. But the problem is Twitter always sucks. Yes even under Jack Dorsey it sucked.
200M users and it's dead? OK then...
it's literally called x now
200m active users on a platform that has 1.4 billion accounts? Okay.
Twitter's userbase went down by 20% while all other big tech platforms had a ~5% increase
"the year twitter died" is passive, and generally not a preferred way to write this, as there are specific actions by one (EM) or several individuals. The active phrase, "the year twitter was killed", is more reflective of the actual situation, and thus better communication. FTFY.
But "was killed" is literally a passive construction
And "died" is active too
but this is the news, and as much fun as it might be to point fingers, that could get the office in trouble. Better to just use the passive voice, avoid ruffling any feathers, and maintain neutrality. AP style guide says their headline is fine.