{"id":4514,"date":"2015-10-15T11:11:54","date_gmt":"2015-10-15T05:41:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/calamur.org\/gargi\/?p=4514"},"modified":"2015-10-15T11:11:54","modified_gmt":"2015-10-15T05:41:54","slug":"is-twitter-dying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calamur.org\/gargi\/2015\/10\/15\/is-twitter-dying\/","title":{"rendered":"Is twitter dying ?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting read on why <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/bad-words\/why-twitter-s-dying-and-what-you-can-learn-from-it-9ed233e37974\">Twitter is dying\u00a0<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span class=\"graf-dropCap\">H<\/span>ere\u2019s my tiny theory, in a word. <em class=\"markup--em markup--p-em\">Abuse<\/em>. And further, I\u2019m going to suggest in this short essay that abuse\u200a\u2014\u200a<em class=\"markup--em markup--p-em\">not <\/em>making money\u200a\u2014\u200ais the great problem tech and media have. <strong class=\"markup--strong markup--p-strong\">The problem of abuse is the greatest challenge the web faces today. <\/strong>It is greater than censorship, regulation, or (ugh) monetization. It is a problem of staggering magnitude and epic scale, and worse still, it is <em class=\"markup--em markup--p-em\">expensive:<\/em> it is a problem that <em class=\"markup--em markup--p-em\">can\u2019t<\/em> be fixed with the cheap, simple fixes beloved by tech: patching up code, pushing out updates.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If twitter were a bar, would you frequent a place with abusers. I have found my interactions on a public timeline going down. Most of my nuanced conversations take place on twitter DM or FB chat. These are with people of different political \/ religious persuasions. We avoid chatting on a public TL &#8211; seriously who wants unpleasantness and unpleasent people \u00a0interrupting an interesting conversation?<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 505px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/uptownmagazine.com\/files\/2014\/10\/twitter-dead-cropped.png?resize=505%2C380\" alt=\"twitter dying\" width=\"505\" height=\"380\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">twitter dying &#8211; image courtsey &#8211; <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/uptownmagazine.com\/files\/2014\/10\/twitter-dead-cropped.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">uptown magazine<\/a><\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Worth reading the<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/bad-words\/why-twitter-s-dying-and-what-you-can-learn-from-it-9ed233e37974\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> entire piece<\/a><\/strong> on the Medium.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting read on why Twitter is dying\u00a0 Here\u2019s my tiny theory, in a word. 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