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Obituary for Twitter

I'm sure now that Elon Musk is paying out $200 million in golden parachutes, Twitter will hang around, and eventually the advertisers will come back at a reduced price now that they've stuck it to Elon, but I pronounce Twitter dead. I'm still going to go there, but reading that Elon fired all the human rights people, so you know. It's only a matter of time once the human rights people leave. I migrated to Mastodon, but I imagine there will be another platform I will migrate to from there. There's a need for a twitter like posting area where you can blurt short thoughts to the world to be ignored, and people can fantasize about being an influencer.  I keep my facebook because it has a lot of old photo storage. I even go there once a week or so for a lark. Not sure but I just stopped visiting the site. I go to Reddit first, then Google News, then Twitter. Added in Mastodon. It takes a while to build up people to follow. Get the lay of the land. The highlight of Facebo...