Chris TrottierNov 18, 2022

For those out of the loop:

Twitter's closing its offices as employees quit in droves. It actually might not exist next month.

There's now yet another #TwitterMigration as people create new account on Mastodon. https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/twitter-offices-closed-1.6655881

Show threadChris TrottierNov 18, 2022

Here's how Twitter is trending right at this moment.

This is for real. People are finally done with Twitter.

Show threadChris TrottierNov 18, 2022

If you want to know how big the current #TwitterMigration is to Mastodon, look at this current chart.

I have never seen anything this massive.

Show threadChris TrottierNov 18, 2022

The only parallel I've ever seen to Twitter's current self-destruction was the Digg 4.0 fiasco.

At one time Digg had ~450 million users. Then they tried to push an extremely unpopular update that caused users to leave en masse.

Where did they go? Reddit.

And now Reddit is one of the biggest social media sites on the planet.

By the way, a whole lot of Internet users have forgotten about Digg -- or don't even know it existed.

Twitter could be Digg but on a much larger scale.

Show threadDan Thornton
@atomicpoet I remember that well - I used to be on Digg a lot...
There have been lots of smaller examples of updating/closing forums and communities, but Twitter might finally push Digg off the top spot
Nov 18, 2022 at 3:22amWeb
Show threadLisa Petrovich SmithNov 18, 2022
@badgergravling @atomicpoet forgot all about Digg
For me my intro to a blogging community was Open Salon which didn’t last long but was an awesome community of writers and artists ..
Some of us have migrated to other places - Twitter, Medium, FB groups -
But have not achieved that early connection
Show threadDan ThorntonNov 18, 2022
@lpsrocks @atomicpoet
I'm ancient enough to remember the days of posting questions and answers in blog circles, and notifying people with mentions in the post, so they'd see the pingbacks!
Show threadGary Bunker Nov 18, 2022
@badgergravling @lpsrocks @atomicpoet So you likely remember Cool Site of the Day - back when we could actually see all the Web with a reasonable amount of effort.
Show threadDan ThorntonNov 18, 2022

@AndySocial @lpsrocks @atomicpoet
Yep, in the dusty library of my memory, along with signing up for this new email service thing called Hotmail, and people claiming AltaVista and AskJeeves would never be replaced by that newfangled Google.

Now I feel really, really old and need a lie down and a nap.