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
Here's how Twitter is trending right at this moment.
This is for real. People are finally done with Twitter.
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.
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.
By the way, am I happy that Twitter is imploding right this moment?
As much as I'd like to celebrate -- and a part of me is -- I'm incredibly wary because:
1. Mastodon does not have the scale to successfully onboard users *that* quickly
2. The moderator-to-user ratio might be stretched too thin
3. Malicious actors might take advantage of the chaos, and undermine the Fediverse's longterm survival
Let's hope we survive this!
The silver lining to the #TwitterMigration: maybe this will result in more funding, more people willing to develop the Fediverse to its full potential.
As I keep telling you, there's more to this endeavour than being a Twitter replacement!
We have the chance to entirely re-make the Internet!
If you're new, I strongly urge you to migrate to a small instance.
It's likely to perform better than the larger instances and have better moderation.
Oh. My. God.
Every time someone on Twitter tweets a link to joinmastodon.com, the following message pops up:
"We can't complete this request because this link has been identified by Twitter or our partners as being potentially harmful. Visit our Help Center to learn more."
See screenshot.
Many Blue Checks are actively telling their followers that Twitter may die soon, and to follow their Mastodon accounts.
Here's an example from Paul Krugman
Looks like journalists are also joining Mastodon en masse right now.
Everything I basically spoke about this past week is coming to pass NOW!
Twitter is being obliterated right now.
Outages are through the roof.
This graph puts things in context. Just so you know—not good when the numbers go up!
Just so you all know, I sold ~$1M in Hootsuite stock last year.
Think I'd be able to sell $1M in Hootsuite stock now?
All those folks on r/WallStreetBets cheering Elon on because he was going to bring a return to free speech.
Yeah, it's free because it's worthless.
By the way, will everyone stop using Twitter immediately? No way!
Over the next year, Twitter will be the platform of choice for crypto enthusiasts, cam girls, and SEO specialists.
UPDATE: Here's the latest chart.
We're now at 14,000 new users joining per hour.
By the end of the night, we might have 7 million Mastodon users.
@ChrisPirillo I mean, as I've been saying all week, once a network effect grows, it's hard to resist it.
I hate Google. Yet I have a Google account. It's 20 years of stuff that's accumulated with that account.
@atomicpoet I'm genuinely scared now. The #Fediverse's infrastructure, but also it's counter culture if openness and inclusivity might get really diluted by the arrival of so many users formated by #Twitter's toxicity. 
Wait and see...
@mlncn Nope! I told them to add identi.ca support 12 years ago. And I told them about ActivityPub 5 years ago.
Now Hootsuite better hope Meta doesn't die too.
@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.
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