Twitter: Hitting the Character Limit
October 19, 2016
I read “Why Twitter is Dying.” I liked the write up. Unlike some of the twits twittering about the throttling of Twitter, the write up delivers useful analysis.
The article points out that some big names do not want to buy the darling of the Sillycon Valley set. Why? The author offers three possibilities:
- Either someone is trying to pull down Twitter’s price so that they can buy into it cheap or possibly take it over, salvage it.
- It is certainly not growing at a pace comparable to that of its new challengers.
- Today’s Twitter so very different from what they had originally signed up for that they are switching out.
Okay, MBA analysis. I circled in passionate purple this passage:
But worse than what the politicians have done to Twitter is what business has done. Sponsored trends and paid-for tweets are the biggest turn-off on today’s Twitter. What was once the world’s most charming flea market has now been hijacked by big business. With Trump loudly trumpeting his views to his 12 million followers, how can you hear the voice of the Dalai Lama who, in any case, speaks in hushed whispers? This brings me to my last question: Have we lost the ability to build and sustain new utopias? The virtual worlds we build are eventually becoming an exact replica of our own dystopian society. In the fall of Twitter lies that tragic realization.
Twitter reflects the modern world. Who would have guessed amidst the Kardashian-, Trump-, and other important matters of today?
We tweet headlines of the stories in Beyond Search. I know from examining usage reports, no one in the mass world cares much about the topics I find interesting. Some folks will miss Twitter if it flames out. Geofeedia is but one example. Then there is the business model. I know, “What business model?”
Stephen E Arnold, October 19, 2016
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