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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Rumor is that there are 238 employees left (from about 7,500 in August). It’s just a matter of time before it goes down (not in a temporary outage way). It’s so interwoven in how the world communicates now so this is going to be a pretty unprecedented event. [/quote]

Agree.  For all those who say that Twitter is nbd, people can just move to Insta or Mastodon or whatever, those people are really not thinking.  Twitter, and instant access to news and to people, famous and just regular people, all over the world, is a big part of our lives - whether you use Twitter yourself or not.  When Twitter is gone, in the near future, it's going to be very different.[/quote]

You mean like way back in 2007?  I don't seem to recall having trouble eating or sleeping in those days.[/quote]

Yes, I mean the world since 2007 - do you remember 2007?  People still had Blackberries and they hadn't rolled out 3G yet.

I think smartphones and their ubiquitousness are a mixed blessing.  Maybe we'll be able to go back to the world of 2007 after Twitter dies.  Maybe that's a good thing.  [/quote]

Only 23% of adults in the US use Twitter. I doubt a 10th of that number are daily users. So for the majority of people Twitter is not a thing. [/quote]

Define “use Twitter.” Lots of police departments, departments of transportation, politicians, schools, etc make announcements via Twitter. I don’t have an account on Twitter but I read it quite a bit (or did, anyway). How many more people are there like me?[/quote]

Exactly.  How will important information be disseminated post-Twitter?[/quote]

I'm sure media can still do their job, the way they used to before Twitter.[/quote]

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