Last week I paid a small fee to be able to download PDF from Threadreader App. Which is really comfortable and makes archiving relevant threads or discussions super easy—and the PDFs look nice, too.
Anyway, it got me thinking about all these maybe rather small things/tools for/around Twitter people/startups produce and sell for little money as a side income or maybe even as main income. Most probably Twitter will nod disappear over night. But when people leave or use it differently, they don’t have a need for these apps any longer. So they stop paying (if it is a monthly/yearly fee and not a one-time price) resulting in reduced income for those developers. Or in them losing all of their income.
Are there any intuitions or even data on the impact of a massive change in Twitter audience and use on the surrounding eco-system?
I also saw comments by artists of various kinds that most if not all of their audience and thus clients and thus income came from/via Twitter and they now have to re-start this side of their “business”
Similarly: When the airport BER did not open as announced but months years later, several small businesses selling food or flowers got bancrupt as they had already moved from Tegel to Schönefeld but without passengers no income
