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Comment by rvz | Hacker News Reader

Once again the source is directly from Twitter / X and the news was announced from there.

Dispelling the complete nonsense that the platform is 'dying'.

The problem is none of the alternatives offered a smooth UX transition. Mastodon is fragmented by design and Bluesky is gated to this day. There was never a true Digg-like event that caused user migration to reach critical mass. So people simply trickled back once the most volatile periods of post-Elon Twitter passed.

That doesn't change the fact post-Elon Twitter has severely degraded in terms of user experience (rate limits, blue check spam, API pay-wall, etc.) and Elon isn't doing the platform any favours by continuing to participate in detrimental ways (seen in the recent advertiser exodus).

FWIW I've just read the tweet on Nitter, haven't had a Twitter account in more than 2 years.

Well that's got very little to do with their point (which isn't very relevant anyway)

Their point is that whether or not the platform is "dying" would depend on whether or not Twitter is still the best way to "get news".

But the most common metrics for whether or not a social media platform is dying, are things like ad revenue and MAU.

I contribute to neither, since I'm not a user nor an ad viewer, and yet I'm still able to "get the news".

So my point is this: the fact that important news are still there, won't guarantee that the platform stays successfull

Twitter isn’t dying. It’s just finding its core audience of white supremacists.

Your comment sounds very weird to people outside America/Europe

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