Prof Christina PagelNov 8, 2022

I think for me to abandon Twitter entirely, I'd need more official media orgs (e..g Sky, BBC, CNN) on here, more journalists because I get a lot of my news from Twitter (esp breaking news).

Also more official bodies (e.g. UKHSA, ONS) so I can see when new official research & stats are released on e.g. Covid, the economy, etc.

And finally academic journals (e.g. BMJ, Lancet, NEJM) who I rely on for latest health research!

Will they come?

Show threadBryan LawrenceNov 8, 2022

@chrischirp

I don’t think it will happen quickly (unless twitter actually fails, which is unlikely quickly, if at all). Of course some will come, but the bulk will come when they are either “missing out” or being “ignored" by those who they care about.

Some of us can come “all in”, here, now, but some can’t, and that’s ok. The question for those of you who need to keep a foot in both camps, is "which camp will be more comfortable for the bulk for your time?"

Show threadMike Taylor 🦕Nov 8, 2022
@bnlawrence On twitter falling: apparently Musk had to borrow $13bn of the $44bn he paid for it, which means he will need to service $1bn per year in debt. That exceeds Twitter's annual revenue. So a crash is actually not all that unlikely.
Show threadBryan Lawrence
@mike Yes, I read that, but as others have argued, the banks themselves might choose to take over rather than loose that sort of money …
Nov 8, 2022 at 5:39pmWeb
Show threadMike Taylor 🦕Nov 8, 2022
@bnlawrence I don't really know what the banks taking over would mean in this situation. Do you mean foreclosing the loan?
Show threadBryan LawrenceNov 8, 2022
@mike TBH, neither do I … I had thought I favoured a post on that, but I haven’t worked out if I can search my own stuff yet (I think not without turning it into a feed and loading it into devonthink, which might be a task for a weekend sometime soon).
Show threadMike Taylor 🦕Nov 8, 2022
@bnlawrence Yeah, it does feel like there is a real searching deficit. I guess we need to get used to using a lot of hashtags.