Is Twitter Nearly Over? Some Users Are Acting Like It Is
“Now is your last chance to please give me a job before Twitter goes down please,” wrote Daniel Spenser, 35, a designer in Brooklyn who is looking for work.
A swift overhaul. Elon Musk has moved quickly to revamp Twitter since he completed his $44 billion buyout of the social media company in October, warning of a bleak financial picture and a need for new products. Here’s a look at some of the changes so far:
Since Mr. Musk’s takeover, some Twitter users have moved to other social media platforms, including Mastodon, which describes itself as “a viable alternative to Twitter.”
Jack Orchard, 31, a researcher in England, said that “before everyone flees,” he wanted to let his Twitter followers know that his daughter, Cherry Jo, was born. Mr. Orchard said in a message that he liked Twitter as “a place where I can be pretty unfiltered and informal, but still talking to my peers,” but that if too many of his colleagues left, “I’ll probably leave too.”
Jennifer Crawford, 49, an architect in Sydney, Australia, wrote that before Twitter “implodes” entirely, she wanted to confess something she did when she was a university student. “I once took a cask of peach cooler to a uni party and left it under the table,” she wrote, referring to the nonalcoholic fruit cocktail. “I was 18. Give me a break.”
Kelly Connolly, an editor in Asheville, N.C., wrote that because “the Twitter vibe has shifted dramatically” she was going to use “my last chance to casually drop into a Tweet that I’ve picked up ballet.”
Article source: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/14/business/media/twitter-users-confessions.html