In the first month of the pandemic, there were 235 million tweet impressions. A year later, it was around 20 million a month. Now it has dropped to half a million.
As long as we are versatile we can switch from network to network and adapt. That is what we have been doing for decades. By seeing the drop in numbers it gives us a concrete reason to move on, rather than sit and tolerate what we do not want to tolerate.
Right, I can just tell you all about my own experienece a bit, both quantity and quality, and everyone can see for themselves and compare with whatever it is they know about it. It's a shame, Twitter had mostly been, for a decade or more, that global public sphere, but I think now reverse network effects are kicking in, and perhaps were already doing so for some time after the pandemic. It's not immediately clear there's going to be anything to replace it in that major role anytime soon, given that it has all become more polarised over the past few years and a global public sphere depends not on technology (that's the easy bit) but on enough people from enough diverse groups in thousands of places wanting to take part.
We have often seen that the web is filled with social networks. It is built around networks of networks. I was lucky enough to be in London in 2006-2007 when tweetups and related events were weekly, and sometimes even several times a week. It was a small but tight community. If Twitter shrinks it is twitter that loses. The challenge, for me is to find where the next like minded community will spend time. This takes time, and dedication. Community building is laborious
As long as we are versatile we can switch from network to network and adapt. That is what we have been doing for decades. By seeing the drop in numbers it gives us a concrete reason to move on, rather than sit and tolerate what we do not want to tolerate.
Right, I can just tell you all about my own experienece a bit, both quantity and quality, and everyone can see for themselves and compare with whatever it is they know about it. It's a shame, Twitter had mostly been, for a decade or more, that global public sphere, but I think now reverse network effects are kicking in, and perhaps were already doing so for some time after the pandemic. It's not immediately clear there's going to be anything to replace it in that major role anytime soon, given that it has all become more polarised over the past few years and a global public sphere depends not on technology (that's the easy bit) but on enough people from enough diverse groups in thousands of places wanting to take part.
We have often seen that the web is filled with social networks. It is built around networks of networks. I was lucky enough to be in London in 2006-2007 when tweetups and related events were weekly, and sometimes even several times a week. It was a small but tight community. If Twitter shrinks it is twitter that loses. The challenge, for me is to find where the next like minded community will spend time. This takes time, and dedication. Community building is laborious