Enough Musk Spam

It has always been the case that way more people talk about Twitter than use it. From the start it has been a media darling with a underwhelming user base, and an even lower participation rate.

The thing that gave it value was the amount of celebrity presence. And as long as celebrities are on it it will be relevant, no matter what Muskie does to cripple it. As soon as there's a new platform with a growing celebrity presence people will flock there and twitx will die off slowly.

I’m heavily invested in sports. Literally everything when it comes to my team gets posted there first. There’s just no other way to get the content.

I suppose I could visit 20 pages a day and be on the lookout, but I’d miss the most interesting things, the discussion. Unfortunately they only happen there.

I can imagine many are in my situation, but with other hobbies.

Most people don't give a shit about politics and would rather not hear about them. So they don't.

Twitter, for them, is about connecting to friends. Connecting to hobby groups. That sort of thing. And Twitter is mostly still useful for them. So they don't even notice the tire fire building up around them.

legitimately: i make and consume gay porn and it’s easily the best place to post for my exhibitionism fetish, despite all the bullshit which hasn’t effected that niche use-case all that much

Sunk cost fallacy.

My friends and artists and games are there. I would stop if they did. I prefer Mastodon by far. I think it's a better product. Sadly, people seem to be moving to blue sky which has the same fundamental weakness as Twitter. Sigh.

Many reasons, but among them is that all of my political representatives are there. I can read what they’re saying about current situations, and they actually respond when I send requests for information that don’t sound like I’m an unhinged person.

edit: just realized this post is a month old, better late than never I guess

I stopped using Twitter in favor of X