For those out of the loop:
Twitter's closing its offices as employees quit in droves. It actually might now exist next month.
There's now yet another #TwitterMigration as people create new account on Mastodon. https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/twitter-offices-closed-1.6655881
Here's how Twitter is trending right at this moment.
This is for real. People are finally done with Twitter.
If you want to know how big the current #TwitterMigration is to Mastodon, look at this current chart.
I have never seen anything this massive.
The only parallel I've ever seen to Twitter's current self-destruction was the Digg 4.0 fiasco.
At one time Digg had ~450 million users. Then they tried to push an extremely unpopular update that caused users to leave en masse.
Where did they go? Reddit.
And now Reddit is one of the biggest social media sites on the planet.
By the way, a whole lot of Internet users have forgotten about Digg -- or don't even know it existed.
Twitter could be Digg but on a much larger scale.
@atomicpoet @mmasnick If Twitter collapses like Digg did, maybe it will prevent the Unitedstatesans from re-electing Trump? Is hard to imagine the necessary degree of insane polarization being sustainable on YouTube, Instagram, and Facebook alone. Maybe the alt-right will collapse too.
@radehi @atomicpoet @mmasnick we can only hope.