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It isn’t final until people actually leave there. As long as there’re users. Otherwise not gonna happen :(

Well, depends how you're defining 'final', really. Like, one way of looking at it is that Livejournal hasn't had its final day yet; there are still people on Livejournal. Another is that it had its final day in 2006 or so; from that point on (at least in the English-speaking world; I think it stayed relevant in Russia for longer) it was kind of a legacy semi-zombie social network.

Twitter's whole thing is its outsized cultural relevance for a rather small user base. If that goes, well, arguably, it's had its final day. This particular change seems like it might go a long way towards ending its relevance; an awful lot of people used twitter only via clicking links from news articles etc, and never actually had an account.

Users will remain, they will just represent a much more narrow slice of society than before. They will be smaller in number and Twitter itself will be less of an 'approved' service — I feel like we already see less promotion of it on TV and on news sites.

Very few sites die entirely. Usenet, BBS, AOL, nethack.alt.org, AskJeeves, MySpace, and Facebook all still exist. That doesn’t mean they remain culturally relevant.

> AskJeeves

dogpile too

Ah, Dogpile. The search connoisseur's choice before Google.

yeah still waiting on this so called twitter sudden death as people keep hyping up.

"this isn't an airport you don't need to announce your departure" - aristotle probably

twitter's a bit of fun. i'm loving this wrestling match hype between zuck and musk.

and watching wagnerPMC storm moscow was no snoozefest

Un/fortunately, they didn’t storm Moscow. It was rather interesting to see them advance, however. Though whether this was a distraction to hide something else (say, “banishing” a PMC closer to the border) or a genuine coup has yet to be seen.

I stopped using Twitter months ago. Stopped Tweeting and only visit the site if I need to follow a link. I never announced it. There was a trend of high profile Tweeters announcing their departure, and some may well have relapsed (I don't keep track) but it would be interesting to see how many people just stopped bothering with the site and all its drama.

you're announcing it to me right now, must I quote Aristotle again?

if twitter is dead to you, let it rot and die in the corner. free yourself from caring about its outcomes

It probably is polite to announce when you switch communication channels if you have any kind of audience.

With the notable exception of Digg, big-bang deaths are rather rare for social networks (and even Digg's wasn't _quite_ as big-bang as people tend to remember); they drift slowly into obscurity. While there might be a triggering factor that could be remembered as the cause of the decline, it's generally hard to pinpoint a time of death.

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