lately it has become fashionable ( lol , or as “ stylish ” as something can be as a thesis in technical school tidings ) to hold that Twitter is give way . These pre - emptive autopsies of a diseased social meshing are too much .
The New Yorker has noted“The End of Twitter . ”My exceedingly wrong colleague just published the headline“Twitter Is Flatlining”and argued that Twitter “ needs to add users at a higher rate or risk growing irrelevant . ”
Twitter is not dying . quit being so dang spectacular .
Before I go on : Yes , I realize that Twitter is not in a heavy place right now . Valued execsare fleeing ; its stockdropped ; it reinstated a Chakra - rave soft boy with horrible leadership skills as its chief executive officer ; its monthly alive users dropped slimly . These are thing I would be worried about as an investor . ( I ’d also be concerned about how much Twitter dunk butt at deal with abusive language . )
As a exploiter , though , I ’m smiling . I ’m grinning . I ’m nictitate at my screen as I knock on a fav , babe .
Twitter is n’t going to originate the way Facebook grew , even if its new algorithmic provender take a leak the Twitter experience easier for new user . And stagnating growth will for certain affect it as a business . Does this mean Twitter will “ be bushed in 18 months , ” as my tragically harebrained editor program - in - gaffer Katie Drummond has boldly assert ? No !
Here is an excerpt from an Atlantic art object declare Twitter ’s death imminent :
We ’ve been stress to figure out the bit Twitter flex , retracing tweets to see whether there was something specific that work the political program .
Something is wrong on Twitter . And hoi polloi are remark [ … ] The matter is : Its users areless active than they once were . Twitter read these change think over a more streamlined experience , but we have a different hypothesis : Twitter is entering its fall .
It was n’t published along with the most recent “ RIP TWITTER U SUCK NOW ” pieces . It was published two years ago . Media reports have declared Twitter deadsince 2009 , just like they ’ve declaredFacebook deadfor years . Whatever shadowy thing was “ wrong ” with Twitter has n’t finish multitude from using it .
Twitter is small than Facebook , but it has hundreds of millions of monthly users . That ’s … an extremely popular military service , more than three time more popular than Peak MySpace . People use Twitter because it ’s the best place to go to find real - time selective information and judgement on the internet . Facebook killed MySpace , but there is no viable usurper platform currently contend with Twitter . Perhaps one will descend along in the next 18 months , but until a serving with close together utility and a superior user experience appears on the scene , it ’s bizarre to intimate that the one C of millions of mass who apply Twitter do not notice it a relevant service .
It ’s also bizarre to suggest that Twitter will become irrelevant if it does n’t balloon in size . A social electronic internet can be relevant if it ’s not as big as Facebook . The ( hundreds of millions ! ! ) people using Twitter do n’t care about MUAs . Twitter is still a near platform for keeping up with breaking news . It gave us#FingersInTheBootyAssBitchthis year . technical school writers are making squishy asseveration that Twitter ’s not as vibrant as it used to be , but give me one concrete example of a loss of sonority . Whatever bullshit you come up with , commend thatZola happenedless than four months ago . Remember that a presidential candidate Twitter beefmade front - varlet newsthis month .
REMEMBER # FINGERSINTHEBOOTYASSBITCH .
And a business can be feasible even if it has a few bad years — peculiarly if it has fat cash modesty . For all its trouble , Twitter has a $ 3.5 billion cushion between subsist and not existing .
http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/markets/2025-04-08/twitter-has-412-years-fix-itself/79301680/
Twitter is like a sad - eyed 40 - year - old middle manager going through a divorce and an ill - advised “ chapeau phase ” mid - life crisis , not a cancer - riddled septuagenarian on its deathbed .
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