Dr. Guillermo Power @gpowerf@social.cleverlibre.org

I wonder if Twitter is big enough that if it does go bust or collapse it could Eternal September a number of other online communities effectively taking everything that’s bad about Twitter elsewhere and causing a chain reaction.

There are under 400 million Twitter users and 200 million users use Twitter daily (minus bots etc…), this is small compared to Facebook’s close to 3 billion users. Twitter is in fact tiny being only the 15th largest social network. But is it big enough to cause chaos in other communities if it does disband?

I’m not writing this for drama or click bait, I simply want to know what your thoughts are. At some point, a large commercial social network will go bust and hundreds of millions if not billions of users will go looking for a new home. That’s potentially not just Eternal September but Nuclear September for other social media sites and online communities.

Thoughts?

#xp #socialmedia

@thrick retroTINKs work really well too for connecting to a modern TV.

@apt just checked again from home. It is my phone provider that does, at home it connects fine. And I get a message from the provider that it has been blocked for security reasons. This is the explanation: https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/detections/mas-to

@apt I ISP blocks the mas.to domain.

@karlequin hi there :) I felt the same at the start given that my intended theme here was video gaming and not academics. I still ended up doing an intro to what could be my temporary neighbours. Or permanent, you never know. I like it here.

@icedquinn that's a good point. 😆

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@Fooji I'm guilty of switching off a whole server room like this.

@trinsec I had it stored for years. Found it a few weeks back.

@taylorlorenz it is a good thing that they have a really tiny team after seemingly firing people randomly. That's exactly what you need during a crisis! Having almost no one to deal with anything keeps those few people who remained on their toes with their heads on fire, that's the best people.

@electron_greg great to see you here :)

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What do your plans include this weekend? I think I’ll be playing some Duck Hunt with this chunky little screens. #retrogaming #retrocomputing #gaming #xp