As a disclaimer, I am a passive hater of Twitter/X ie I don’t like it as a toxic social media platform and haven’t used it but I am not asking the users to move to Threads or some other fediverse alternative as a paid promoter. Also I don’t really intend to keep a strict tab on its status since I get any related major developments from other news outlets and Lemmy.

Seeing how it would be almost a year since the acquisition and all the decisions he took, people were speculating how it would only take a few weeks or months for it to shut down under the leadership of Elon Musk. Even I believed so after I saw the introduction of extremely high fees for API access, verification mark etc, thinking it may be under a financial crisis. But even now I am seeing no signs of it actually coming close to shutting down, as seen by the uninterrupted flux of screenshots/memes/posts of tweets in other social media platforms and its continued use for marketing by other brands and announcements by authorities. I did see some posts by Musk stating his issues with Twitter/X, news of his companies’ stocks going down, and some reputable figures announcing their departure from the platform among some other minor related events, however I feel these aren’t concrete evidences for me to come to a conclusion.

Could anyone clarify what the actual status of Twitter/X is, and if it is actually going to collapse anytime soon as rumored? Am I missing out on something crucial, like some secret funding to keep it alive or all of the rumors of it collapsing being just a huge overreaction by the internet in the end?

  • Sanctus@lemmy.worldEnglish
    82·
    1 year ago

    Platforms don’t die like biological things do. They age and change until their core user base is alienated and the platform is then tucked neatly in a corner to operate in the shadows for the next 30 years.

        • cubedsteaks@lemmy.today
          12·
          1 year ago

          thought Livejournal got taken over by Russia around 2008ish?

          I have a hilarious permanent account on LiveJournal cause I wanted to keep it as a time capsule. This was so long ago, I actually mailed a check to Livejournal to pay for my stupid account to be permanent! So of course it’s just sitting there.

      • Ghostalmedia@lemmy.worldEnglish
        11·
        1 year ago

        Yes and no. The domain is still up, but it just a stupid Gawker-like blog. No user posted content. An ad company bought the domain uses it for blog spam.

      • ConstipatedWatson@lemmy.world
        10·
        1 year ago

        I still find Slashdot relevant! It doesn’t feel like it faded into irrelevance, only that it stopped growing (it reached its needed critical mass and that was it)

        Edit: fixed grammar