Twitter Apocalypse Consolidation Thread

[TheProle]

Okay, doom-ish implications, incorrect information and Olympic competition-level handwringing have been the order of the day on DU today, so here's your chance to actually articulate it: what is your worst-case fever-dream of what Twitter will become that it is not now?

[bucolic_frolic]

1. A fascist-libertarian cesspool of threats, doxxings, and intimidation of their enemies.

[TheProle]

6. Threats and Doxxings are measureable

so we should be able to see if those are allowed without consequence in fairly short order.

"Intimidation of their enemies" is a bit more nebulous and subjective.

Thanks for articulating your worries.

[Hugin]

2. Twitter is a mirror. n/t

[pwb]

3. Never joined.

But we are use to pukes owning the media.

[RandiFan1290]

4. I'm working on my own Twitter OP for later.

It's going to be great!

[LeftInTX]

5. I don't spend enough time on twitter to know

I use it for:
NWS Alerts
Tagging Elected Officials
Breaking News...(Not stories, but stuff that the media puts out before the write a story)
AND:
Reading DU posts

That's about it.

I don't think it will change for me.

[In It to Win It]

7. My predicition is that it will remain largely the same as it is now

Most people won't leave. 95% of people on Twitter probably don't care.

[TheProle]

8. True

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[ForgedCrank]

11. I think you

are probably right.
A lot of people who use twitter are basically addicts, they may "quit", but that won't last.
Personally, I think twitter and facebook are among the worst things to happen to mankind in the last 20 years. Even the dumbest of the dumb can figure out how to use these platforms, and they bring their stupid with them.
If "social media" completely evaporated, I think we would all be much better off, at least after the DT's wore off. And that's coming from someone who has been active on social media for over 30 years. I started out using BBS systems, and then heavy into newsgroup participation. Even reddit can never hope to be as foul as some of the old newsgroups. We fought and we flamed, but at least there wasn't as much outward and raw hatred as there is now.

[rockfordfile]

9. I could careless what it becomes. The fact that a un-American fascist is the owner.

It's time to leave Twitter.
I see the new owner is the same owner who had to pay out $137 million settlement to black employee over racism.

[dalton99a]

10. +1. Musk is an unrepentant, rabid, vile racist

Judge him by the company he runs

[PortTack]

15. My thoughts exactly...I don't remotely want anything to do with that POS!!

[Frasier Balzov]

12. Where will enough money come from to pay for this?

From advertising? Color me skeptical.

[TheProle]

13. They rake it in, apparently

Twitter gross profit for the quarter ending December 31, 2021 was $1.052B, a 22.9% increase year-over-year.
Twitter gross profit for the twelve months ending December 31, 2021 was $3.280B, a 39.58% increase year-over-year.
Twitter annual gross profit for 2021 was $3.28B, a 39.58% increase from 2020.
Twitter annual gross profit for 2020 was $2.35B, a 1.19% increase from 2019.
Twitter annual gross profit for 2019 was $2.322B, a 11.79% increase from 2018.

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/TWTR/twitter/gross-profit

[cagefreesoylentgreen]

14. Don't come to Tumblr

We like our hellsite (affectionate) as it is.