Forbes: Twitter is a Garbage Fire and That Fire is Dying

As Clownfish put it, Twitter is increasingly just bluecheckmark jagoffs retweeting each other.

In short, Twitter has been in a six-year decline and stagnation it can't seem to shake. The company's solution? To pivot to yet another definition of what counts as a "user" in a desperate attempt to paint its decline in a more positive light.

In the last seven years, Twitter has experienced a slow steady collapse in the popularity of its service. It is down more than 100 million daily tweeting users and down almost 200 million daily tweets while its user base is stagnating and it is transitioning from a content platform to a behavioral platform.

The company's answer to this steady decline has been to rebrand its growth, redefining what it counts as a "user" to something that paints a slightly rosier picture of the company's future prospects.

This story is a week old. I heard about it through Clownfish, who talked about.

posted by Ace of Spades at 02:56 PM

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