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Was anyone else shocked to be reminded that a few of these top stories happened in 2023 and not years earlier?

I thought the Silicon Valley Bank failure was 2022. It feels like so long ago. Crazy how long 2023 felt like (at least for me).

Also interesting is that the number of Twitter posts were cut almost in half this year. Despite what a certain CEO claims, all indicators seem to affirm that the popularity of that platform has decreased significantly in 2023.

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Creator here. I had forgotten all about the bank collapse/contagion week until I put this together. I remember a lot of discussion around if the actions were necessary, or if it amounted to a bailout. By one measure, it's a great thing that SVB seems like a distant memory and not an ongoing concern.

When I first saw that twitter.com stories drop off like that, I thought it might be because of links going to nitter or similar, but that didn't seem to be the case. No telling what the Twitter diaspora will result in.

One of the other interesting domain dropoffs happened between 2019 and 2020 (not shown on that view) when nytimes.com seems to have received some type of penalty.

Can't it be because of links to x.com?

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