Look, I’m not saying that Twitter is about to vanish, taking an important slice of the records of the history of the early-21st century with it.

But if you’re doing any kind of research that cites someone’s tweets…now is a great time to make sure you have screenshots.

@librarianshipwreck Definitely not going to vanish, but maybe become less relevant, sort of like what happened to Tumblr. Or, ideally, someone buys it and makes it better. Definitely a good moment for a new social network to jump in and take over (though sadly, I don't think Mastodon will be able to do that).

@nino @librarianshipwreck as a cloud engineer myself... let's just say "definitely" is doing a bit more work in that sentence than I'm comfortable with.

and that's before the possibility of the DoJ or EU just seizing their DNS like it's a double-parked car headed to impound.

@alexhammy209 @librarianshipwreck I'm not a tech expert, I guess I was expressing my hopes rather than a strong opinion. But I just think that such a huge website will survive in some way 🤷🏻‍♂️

@nino @librarianshipwreck let me just say that probably is up to the job that definitely isn't going to be able to manage.

it's really likely that it will survive/be recoverable.

but it's like any big, complicated operation, there's an actual risk of it being damaged beyond repair and the normal safeguards against that irreparable failure have been systematically stripped away.

@alexhammy209 @librarianshipwreck Yeah.. Here's hoping it doesn't turn out like that :/