Twitter C/D

Just can’t turn away from the trainwreck. If only NYT had a Twitter collapse meter I could watch to know pseudo-objectively how close we’re getting to impact. Are bookies taking odds on when it will happen? I guess “website total collapse” would have to be very clearly defined if so.

RSS would be awesome if A) anyone websites still used it and B) there were options for shitposting (I am recovering to be clear). I still was regularly using the Netvibes RSS client within the past couple of years but it seems like even over that span the popularity of RSS has seriously waned.

what's great is that in the free marketplace of ideas, the competition to replace twitter is inevitably going to lead to innovation and a better communications product for us all

ilx will lose at least 25% of its content when Twitter goes down for good

Thank god I was tired of people pasting tweets

There should be an ILX template to just post our own posts as tweets. For the sake of nostalgia.

Is there a bet available in betting markets for predicting times of system disruption/ length of downtime during World Cup?

That seems plausible?

I think in terms of broader discourse Twitter served its purpose. Everything is so siloed now, maybe it won’t be so bad for some other less granular wannabe public forum to replace it.

Unless the replacement really is some chimera of WeChat, Instagram and Parler.

Tons of places still use RSS, I am drowning in articles lol. Including tumblr for your shitpost-reading needs.

Instagram is terminal, aiui

CampusKiss.com eyeing a triumphant return

really appreciate that twitter didn't really *want* to sell to him, but had a fiduciary duty to its shareholders to accept such a wildly overpriced bid, resulting in the destruction of everything. capitalism!

Bring back Makeoutclub!

twitter going down is a bad thing

It’s funny tho

live by the lulz, die by the lulz

Wherever will we get our fake news now

twitter going down is a bad thing

In the short term yes no argument. But does social media have to be so market-oriented? Is that just a completely naive framework?

it's going to be hard to build something up like that again that everyone buys into to be heard.

Sadly otm

People don’t need to be heard rly it was more bad than good

https://mobile.twitter.com/i/timeline

Best thing Twitter did for the world in general was to allow anyone to yell directly at rich and powerful people, which drove many of them insane, including the richest guy on earth

— Hamilton Nolan (@hamiltonnolan) November 12, 2022

That’s true we can’t get that back

But we can go to their houses!

you can call their offices and leave a voicemail. it's a great way to yell at ted cruz. boy was he embarrassed!!!

xxxp "more bad than good" - I guess it depends on what your experience was on twitter

I really liked hearing from the people I loved and followed!

Sure, there were a lot examples of "so-and-so you followed liked this tweet" that I found repulsive, or responses to someone evil whose original tweet I wish I'd never seen, but overall it has been a rewarding experience for me

i left twitter in october 2015 and my life has been great except for when people remind me of or direct me to tweets. rest in piss

I enjoyed it for years but it was often horrible and it made the world worse

Hi Brad

i agree with you except i have never enjoyed it. i also fucking loathe the twitterspeak argot that became default conversational tone on ilx during its reign.

no that part is good

You all sound like you were bad at Twitter. I enjoyed my (admittedly highly curated) experience there greatly, made tons of valuable professional connections, and read lots of funny jokes about Danzig and Rob Zombie and interesting articles (and bought books) that people I know wrote that I might not have found out about any other way.

i think the best thing you can say about it is that it made the world a worse place by accident, unlike facebook, which did it deliberately.

I was good at it it was still ultimately bad for me at the worst of times, I eventually turned off RTs from almost everybody

ILX is a very small insular community (a good one!), Facebook is an abomination consisting of posts by discarded high school friends, Instagram exists solely for its users to promote themselves with flattering photos, and TikTok is just cute parody videos…

So, after Twitter what’s left of a real public forum in the larger world?

U say that like it's a bad thing

tiktok is good

Tons of places still use RSS, I am drowning in articles lol. Including tumblr for your shitpost-reading needs.

I use nitter to read twitter posts via rss.

So, after Twitter what’s left of a real public forum in the larger world?

reddit is bad

Less ppl should be heard from imo

that is definitely true, but twitter also allowed for voices you wanted to hear from

lets fire up the ol webring

https://neocities.org/

i left twitter in october 2015 and my life has been great except for when people remind me of or direct me to tweets. rest in piss

Hard agree

If it goes down I'm going to really miss it, it will be a huge loss. I know I won't ever again find connections to a lot of the people on it that I admire and like hearing from

https://i.imgur.com/SvrWVZL.png

“Can you buy Twitter and then delete it, please? xx"

— text to Elon Musk from ex-wife, March 23, 2022 pic.twitter.com/lDrMtzUWrG

— Chad Loder - @chadlo✧✧✧@kolekt✧✧✧.soc✧✧✧ (@chadloder) November 18, 2022

I posited to bf a couple days ago that I suspected that Elon's attitude toward Twitter was likely coloured by an acknowledgement that the disappearance of the platform would be a net gain for people like himself-- it effectively is the best platform for people to express dissent against plutocrats (in a broad sense) like Elon himself. This isn't to say that I necessarily felt that he intentionally intended to cause it to fail, just that it was a deeper part of his subconscious approach to running the company-- like, "it's OK if I totally fuck this up"

otm. I think that in his totally warped way of thinking, if the site flourished under him it would prove his genius and if not it's because it deserved to die.

i think some have forgotten that the true way forward is X