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●● How Twitter (Quite Likely Both the Company and the Platform) Died in June/July 2023

Posted in Deception at 5:54 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz

Over a week ago: Twitter Has Just Been Unofficially Killed by Elon Musk (Date of Death: June 30 2023)

=> Twitter Has Just Been Unofficially Killed by Elon Musk (Date of Death: June 30 2023)

Image: Twitter is walled garden Akin to “paywalls” everywhere (some people called them paywalls, but they’re walled gardens)

Summary: Nothing has been the same since Twitter put everything behind walled gardens; it gave people a strong nudge in another direction and they took the hint

THE pundits ask aloud if Facebook can swallow Twitter [1], seeing that Bluesky is barely talked about anymore [2] (it’s where Jack Dorsey went, but they suffered a slow start with relatively disappointing adoption numbers). Remember Mastodon? It has problems of its own and some people wrongly believe Facebook can help. Facebook can actually do a lot of harm, in methods that are akin to “embrace and extend”. The only thing we condone is abandoning all social control media.

“Facebook can actually do a lot of harm, in methods that are akin to “embrace and extend”.”

At the moment the media focuses on just two options [3-4], even in the spamfarm known as CNET [5-6]. There are already signs of censorship opportunism [7] and Engadget is trying to capitalise on the sudden interest [8-10]. A lot of the discussion focuses on the wrong things, e.g. boredom [11]. The latest Twitter scandals [12] are lost in the mist of deathmatch-like framings. Not many people paid attention to the privacy red flags [13]. When someone threatens to sue a company it grabs a lot more headlines. In many ways, Twitter shot its own foot [14] and we heralded its death over a week ago when walled gardens were erected (after they had allegedly found themlselves compelled to do this; it was likely a fat lie).

“Issues accessing the tweets (hence the ads), without prior warning, meant many people began marking Twitter as “dead”. They felt anxious to move somewhere else.”

Instagram Threads sort of launched (maybe even rushed and released prematurely) at the almost perfect timing, stealing Bluesky’s thunder [15-16] within only a few days. Advertisers (the main source of income) were talking away [17], trying to relocate where eyeballs were moving. Issues accessing the tweets (hence the ads), without prior warning [18], meant many people began marking Twitter as “dead”. They felt anxious to move somewhere else.

To name some issues from a week ago, see “Twitter’s API Keeps Breaking, Even for Developers Paying $42,000″ [19] and TweetDeck problems [20-21]. Yaccarino is just some person on a sinking boat [22]. There’s nothing she can do now to reverse course. One day we might look back at all this and recall the rapid death of Twitter. Cynicism has become common [23] as users moaned about access issues for about a week [24-28]. For Facebook it was a double-whammy because a lot of scandals and negative publicity (e.g. [29-35] were quickly buried by this barrage of shallow crap, X versus Y, false dichotomies, and even cheering for Mark Zuckerberg [36-63].

RIP, blue bird. █

Related/contextual items from the news:

●●●● 2023-07-07 [Older] Is Threads a Threat to Twitter? | Future Tech

●●●● 2023-07-07 [Older] Don’t Count Bluesky Out Yet

●●●● 2023-07-07 [Older] For the moment, it’s all Threads with Twitter now a pariah

●●●● 2023-07-07 [Older] Threads: new Twitter rival looks like a shrewd move but Meta lacks credibility

●●●● 2023-07-07 [Older] Threads Faces Legal Threat From Twitter, Report Says – CNET

●●●● 2023-07-07 [Older] Twitter Reportedly Threatens to Sue Meta Over Threads App – CNET

●●●● 2023-07-07 [Older] Meta restores Instagram and Threads account that tracked Elon Musk’s private jet

●●●● 2023-07-07 [Older] All the questions we still have about Threads, Meta’s Twitter killer

●●●● 2023-07-07 [Older] Engadget Podcast: Diving into Threads and Twitter’s latest mess

●●●● 2023-07-07 [Older] The Morning After: Twitter says Meta stole trade secrets to build Threads

●●●● 2023-07-07 [Older] Threads won’t kill Twitter if it’s boring

●●●● 2023-07-06 [Older] Emergency office criticized for sending people to Twitter for Storm Poly updates

●●●● 2023-07-05 [Older] Meta’s Twitter rival Threads won’t initially launch in the EU

●●●● 2023-07-05 [Older] Twitter quietly backtracks on requiring users to log in to see tweets

●●●● 2023-07-04 [Older] Bluesky experiences record-high traffic after Twitter implements reading limits

●●●● 2023-07-04 [Older] Bluesky Sees “Record” Web Traffic After Elon’s Latest Dumb Twitter Decision

●●●● 2023-07-04 [Older] Dutch advertisers: Twitter “certainly not more attractive” after Musk’s latest step

●●●● 2023-07-04 [Older] Twitter says it couldn’t tell people about rate limiting in advance

●●●● 2023-07-03 [Older] Mashable: ‘Twitter’s API Keeps Breaking, Even for Developers Paying $42,000’

●●●● 2023-07-03 [Older] TweetDeck Falters as Elon Musk Wrecks Twitter

●●●● 2023-07-04 [Older] Twitter launches ‘new’ Tweetdeck as the old version breaks down

●●●● 2023-07-03 [Older] CEO Linda Yaccarino’s Vision for Twitter 2.0: Sound-On Video Ads

●●●● 2023-07-03 [Older] Everything Continues to Be Going Just Great at Twitter

●●●● 2023-07-03 [Older] The Morning After: Twitter limits unverified users to seeing 600 posts a day

●●●● 2023-07-03 [Older] Twitter’s apps are breaking following Elon Musk’s decision to cap tweet rates

●●●● 2023-07-02 [Older] Viewing Twitter posts without a login is blocked under temporary restrictions

●●●● 2023-07-01 [Older] Elon Musk claims Twitter’s new login requirement is a ‘temporary’ response to data scrapers

●●●● 2023-07-01 [Older] Twitter puts strict cap on how many tweets users can read each day

●●●● 2023-07-06 [Older] Biden Appeals Judge’s Ban on Government Asking for Social Media Takedowns

●●●● 2023-07-06 [Older] Top EU court invalidates Facebook basis for targeted advertising

●●●● 2023-07-05 [Older] Quebecor to pull ads from Facebook, Instagram after news access halted

●●●● 2023-07-05 [Older] Federal government has suspended its advertising on Facebook, Instagram

●●●● 2023-07-04 [Older] CJEU declares Meta/Facebook’s GDPR approach largely illegal

●●●● 2023-07-04 [Older] Facebook will need permission to show personalized ads in the EU

●●●● 2023-07-03 [Older] Why is Facebook Marketplace getting so much negative reviews?

●●●● 2023-07-07 [Older] Twitter Is Threatening to Sue Meta Over Threads, Meta Executives Threaten to Piss Their Pants Laughing

●●●● 2023-07-07 [Older] ‘Clone’ or Competitor? Users and Lawyers Compare Twitter and Threads

●●●● 2023-07-07 [Older] Twitter May Face Difficulties Showing Meta Stole Trade Secrets

●●●● 2023-07-06 [Older] Threads Hands-On: Instagram’s New App Might Just Be Dull Enough to Beat Twitter

●●●● 2023-07-06 [Older] Twitter Hits Meta With Lawsuit Threat Over Stolen ‘Trade Secrets’

●●●● 2023-07-06 [Older] Zuckerberg launches Threads to lock horns with ailing Twitter

●●●● 2023-07-06 [Older] Meta’s Twitter rival Threads is here. Can it survive the company’s woes?

●●●● 2023-07-06 [Older] Why You May Not Want to Sign Up for Threads, Meta’s New Twitter Competitor – CNET

●●●● 2023-07-06 [Older] Instagram Threads: Meta sets sights on Twitter supremacy

●●●● 2023-07-06 [Older] Twitter to sue Meta over new Threads app

●●●● 2023-07-06 [Older] Meta’s Threads app is here to challenge Twitter

●●●● 2023-07-06 [Older] The Morning After: Meta’s Twitter rival, Threads, is finally here

●●●● 2023-07-06 [Older] Twitter threatens to sue Meta over the new Threads app

●●●● 2023-07-06 [Older] Meta Takes Aim at Twitter With the Launch of Rival App Threads

●●●● 2023-07-06 [Older] Twitter Threatens Legal Action Against Meta Over Threads: Report

●●●● 2023-07-06 [Older] What you need to know about Threads, Instagram’s new Twitter killer app

●●●● 2023-07-05 [Older] Everything We Know About Threads, Instagram’s Twitter Killer App

●●●● 2023-07-05 [Older] Threads, Meta’s Twitter-Killer, Is Now Available

●●●● 2023-07-05 [Older] Instagram Threads: Meta sets sights on Twitter supremacy

●●●● 2023-07-05 [Older] Musk has more to worry about than cage fight with Zuckerberg

●●●● 2023-07-06 [Older] Meta Takes Aim at Twitter With the Launch of Rival App Threads

●●●● 2023-07-04 [Older] Meta Introduces ‘Threads’ Because It Wants In on the Twitter Exodus

●●●● 2023-07-04 [Older] Meta set to launch Twitter rival Threads this week

●●●● 2023-07-04 [Older] Instagram’s Threads App Was Briefly Listed on Google Play Over the Weekend

●●●● 2023-07-04 [Older] Meta appears poised to compete with Twitter with new app Threads

●●●● 2023-07-04 [Older] Meta’s Instagram-linked Twitter rival ‘Threads’ could arrive on July 6th

●●●● 2023-07-04 [Older] The Morning After: Meta’s Instagram-linked Twitter rival could arrive this week

●●●● 2023-07-03 [Older] Where the Hell Is Instagram’s Twitter Clone?

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