The ongoing Elon Twitter saga: "insert demographic" melts down

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mashable.com said:
Back in 2015, Twitter unveiled(opens in a new tab) in a blog post that "500 million people" visit Twitter each month without logging in. That's a lot of potential users who aren't providing their data to Twitter for the company to monetize. In fact, that number is higher than what Twitter has for monthly active users. Twitter has continually suffered from stagnant(opens in a new tab) user growth(opens in a new tab), loss of power users(opens in a new tab), and dwindling advertising revenue(opens in a new tab) since Musk took over the platform. Forcing hundreds of millions of visitors to sign up gives the company the opportunity to inflate those numbers and pitch its bigger use base to potential advertisers.
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Twitter now blocks visitors from viewing tweets, and profiles unless they're logged in

Elon Musk continues to limit how the platform can be accessed.
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Thing is you won't get 500 million plus people signing up, probably not even a fraction of them meanwhile you've just lost 100s of millions of ad impressions by forcing people to sign up to view anything because people tend to browse without being logged in for a reason even if just laziness and you can't force them to do otherwise a few might respond to the stick most will simply go elsewhere - sites like Twitter might enjoy first mover advantage and that is difficult to shift... until the site itself ***** up.
 

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Thing is you won't get 500 million plus people signing up, probably not even a fraction of them meanwhile you've just lost 100s of millions of ad impressions by forcing people to sign up to view anything because people tend to browse without being logged in for a reason even if just laziness and you can't force them to do otherwise a few might respond to the stick most will simply go elsewhere - sites like Twitter might enjoy first mover advantage and that is difficult to shift... until the site itself ***** up.
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Add to this, the views that content creators will now lose. Twitter will more than ever look like a site where you're on a long road to nothing. If one month you're getting 1 million views, and then you just see it drop to 300 thousand and never return, it will definitely concern creators. Mean while sites like Facebooks new twitter will be making news as the new one with massive growth and that may well be where lots of users jump to. And once the big guys start to jump, it won't take much for the remaining to see the writing on the wall.
 

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Add to this, the views that content creators will now lose. Twitter will more than ever look like a site where you're on a long road to nothing. If one month you're getting 1 million views, and then you just see it drop to 300 thousand and never return, it will definitely concern creators. Mean while sites like Facebooks new twitter will be making news as the new one with massive growth and that may well be where lots of users jump to. And once the big guys start to jump, it won't take much for the remaining to see the writing on the wall.
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Yeah if someone comes along with a decent Twitter alternative right now people will jump - sites like Twitter are hard to shift unless/until they do something to cause people to jump and little they've done lately has been popular.
 

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Roar87 said:
Did you miss those replies to you in the Joe Rogan thread? It seems you were spreading misinformation
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I saw them Roar, don't you worry your pretty little biceps about that. I think you have bigger problems than me discussing a loony conspiracy theorist in that thread. Now you be careful because those FEDs are everywhere and can be anyone ;););)
 
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Twitter appears to be having some pretty bad issues today. Feed not refreshing, some stuff showing if you go direct to an account but not all, and slow-as-molasses trying to navigate anyway.

Thanks Elon!

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