A Eulogy for Twitter

 

English: The content of tweets on Twitter, bas...

The content of tweets on Twitter, based on the data gathered by Pear Analytics in 2009.

Adrienne LaFrance and Robinson Meyer: ‘Something is wrong on Twitter. And people are noticing.

Or, at least, the kind of people we hang around with on Twitter are noticing. And it’s maybe not a very important demographic, this very weird and specific kind of user: audience-obsessed, curious, newsy. Twitter’s earnings last quarter, after all, were an improvement on the period before, and it added 14 million new users for a total of 255 million. The thing is: Its users are less active than they once were. Twitter says these changes reflect a more streamlined experience, but we have a different theory: Twitter is entering its twilight.’ (The Atlantic).