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Comment by thejackgoode | Hacker News Reader

Somehow it seems to me Twitter will just die and nothing will “overtake” it. People might randomly disperse to multiple new places, as they did from Google+, for example. Twitter had a good decade, little point now to try to reproduce the experience.

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It is likely it will bleed out, but comparing to G+ doesn't work. G+ wasn't successful outside some niche groups which moved elsewhere.

Twitter managed to become a central hub for all of Media. Any celebrity, politician, ... with some announcement? - Put it on Twitter. Any gossip? - it makes its circles on Twitter. And from there wit goes into media (as all media authors are on Twitter) and from media back onto Twitter. Will be interesting to see how that develops, as large parts of media replaced their news gathering with tweetdeck or some other tool on Twitter.

Yeah, the proper timing for free consumer internet services was in the noughties and early 2010s. Now you have to grab consumers attention with huge marketing campaigns and that can only produce a good return if the service charges consumers in some way

Is Twitter actually imploding though? I think it's just merely past its peak and on a slow decline.

I haven't seen any evidence of it being near death, just a lot of wishful thinking from Twitter and Elon Musk haters.

They’re losing $1B/year just for interest to acquisition costs due to the leveraged buyout…

Without constant cash infusion they’re walking dead.

Musk himself says ad revenue is down 50%.. and Cloudflare tweeted: "Twitter traffic tanking" with this chart: https://twitter.com/eastdakota/status/1678065025750294532

At the very least, Twitter is not doing well.

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