Another way to read this is, "Twitter's AI dept. has been doing so badly they don't have a use for billions of dollars of hardware they bought."

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etempleton a day ago | parent | next [-]

The downfall of Twitter is one of the most spectacular self inflicted business failures I have ever witnessed.

Amazing to think it was once so ingrained in mainstream society.

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stri8ted a day ago | parent | next [-]

What metrics are you using to classify it as a downfall?

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guax a day ago | parent | next [-]

I don't care either way but I got curious.

Not an easy thing to gauge. X/Twitter stopped publishing MAUs after the acquisition.

External estimates vary, some point to growth, some to stagnation. We know that revenue suffered. LOTS of partisan and emotional opinions for either.

Google trends does paint a bleak picture for X but I am also questioning how much google itself can gauge that after LLMs exploded in popularity.

Anecdotally I did notice that references and embeds to X are way less prominent and common than before. My usual news used to be filled with them. My consumption of the platform also plummeted after not being able to read threads when not logged, its much harder for me to get drawn into it.

Still without data, I would be surprised if the changes to verification and logged out access did not massively hurt new adoption. With tiktoks prevalence amongst a new generation I would bet its a matter of time before X gets grouped to tumbler/facebook, not dead, but way past its peak and cultural relevance. If that has not already happened.

	▲	lanstin 17 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Anecdata: Mastodon now has witty, un-earnest comments semi-regularly. And I have learned of maybe ten percent of breaking news things in the last three months on Mastodon via links that weren’t just to twitter.
	▲	LorenDB a day ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		> Not an easy thing to gauge. X/Twitter stopped publishing MAUs after the acquisition. You're in luck. IIRC some of the SpaceX IPO marketing materials said they have 550M MAU.

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etempleton a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Impact in the zeitgeist. Twitter was everywhere. Regularly referenced on live news television statins. Was considered a major news source. Shows had segments dedicated to it. Everyone and every brand had a Twitter. That is not the case today. Not by a long shot.

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shimman a day ago | parent | prev [-]

Reddit has more monthly active users than twitter and reddit isn't really culturally relevant at all (neither is twitter either IMO).

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Analemma_ a day ago | parent | prev [-]

On the one hand, yes, this is really embarrassing for Grok. On the other hand, everyone except a couple Twitter randos already thinks Grok is worthless junk: there's no reputation left for it to to lose. And Elon is crying all the way to the bank with an extra $11bn in annual revenue.