Twitter Stock Tanks as User Numbers Tumble

money.usnews.com ^ | July 27, 2018, at 9:01 a.m. | By Wayne Duggan

[McGavin999]

Gee, do you think shadow banning conservatives had anything to do with that? Need to find the employees who are doing that and fire them, it’s impacting the numbers of active users.

[Hostage]

Good points but I don’t see where Twitter avoids porn.

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/twitter-porn-ted-cruz_us_59b96ae0e4b02da0e13e7e59

It looks like Twitter encourages porn in certain contexts.

I’ve seen some hardcore vulgar profanity on Twitter as well. I’ve even seen it in responses to the President’s tweets and those of his family.

And when the President has had people try and block such vulgar cretins, suddenly the ACLU and a slew of progressive smut tanks whip into action to scream he’s blocking free speech.

But good point on Gab operating offshore, but maybe that’s a form of protection against regulators?

In any event, here is a list of alternatives to Twitter:

Diaspora
Mastodon
Minds
VK
GNU social
Friendica
Hubzilla
Movim
Ello
ZeroMe
Open Source Social Network ( OSSN
kune
Hawaar
Socialscribe
WrongThink
Openbook
THINK thenlive
Chaino
Micro.blog
Scuttlebutt.nz
Futurenet
e-Sathi
BabyTwit
Viadeo
SocialNumber
Thoughtifies
ADZbuzz
Qwerby Stories
JumzleR
Tokumei
Chttr.co
SocialER
SocialPage
Dinky Social Network
CircleCare
Finspi
CornerHub
GetFire.net
heypster
Sublevel
Tent
Total Social

[Red Badger]

TWITTER says it was a ‘GLITCH’ in their ‘ALGORITHM’................

[Buckeye McFrog]

Maybe people are suddenly realizing that you can’t say anything of real importance in 144 characters.

That's what I used to think. And then Donald Trump brought down the entire political establishment with it.

[DoughtyOne]

I’ve had my Twitter account for a decade or more.

Hardly used it until Trump came along.

The Left jumps in and makes fools of themselves.

Twitter must love what Trump has done for their numbers.

[chris37]

I never Twitted, and I never will Twit.

[SMGFan]

It is about double price year ago today , but about half the price of 4.5 years ago.

[Alas Babylon!]

Rush Limbaugh explained this yesterday with regard to facebook. Too many young-heads-full-of-mush Millennials work at these social media corporations and need to be educated.

As follows:

RUSH: We also have this Facebook mess. I’m gonna put that in perspective and make an offer today. I really don’t think — and, by the way, I realize this offer is going to be rejected. It’s not even gonna be acknowledged, but I’m gonna make it anyway. It is abundantly clear — I just saw a picture of the two Facebook employees that are in charge of determining what’s permissible. They don’t even look like they’re eating solid foods yet. They still look like they’re on the Gerbers. They’re simply not old enough to have lived long enough to have any significant life experiences.

The future belongs to the young; we all know this. We were all young once and everything was about us. Advertising. I mean, every generation — the Millennials are having their turn at it now — you have 25 to 35, 25 to 40, the world is all about you. Everybody needs you, everybody wants you because they want you to establish your habits that you will then practice for the rest of your life that have to do with how you spend your money and how you live your life so that those patterns can be exploited for financial gain. It’s all good.

But once you get past the age of 50, they don’t care about you anymore. Because the next group of young people coming up is the focus. And that’s all well and good. We’ve all had our turn in the light. We’ve all had our share. The problem is — I was thinking about this the other day, and I think about it a lot. We’re coming up on 30 years of having done this program, and occasionally people will ask me, “Do you think the program’s gotten better, or do you think that it’s not as good as it used to be?”

I said, “That’s not the way to look at it. It depends how you want to define the terms.” But what I can tell you is this. I have never been more prepared to do this program every day than I am today. I’ve never had more knowledge to use in doing this program every day. I’ve continued to amass life experiences that I simply didn’t have 30 years ago when I was 37 years old starting this. Just not possible. When I was 37 I thought I knew enough, I thought I knew everything. And I did know enough to make it work and so forth.

My only point is that you keep growing and you keep learning, there’s no question that somebody who is in their sixties is far more knowledgeable and has lived far more to have many more practical life experiences than somebody in their twenties. Now, that’s not to say that person is smarter than somebody in their twenties; that’s a whole ‘nother thing too. You start adding things like arrogance and hubris, you think you’re great, you don’t need to learn anymore, you think everybody else is stupid.

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I’ve always told you that every four or five generations one is gonna come along that’s simply gonna reject what it finds as status quo when it matures and becomes adults. And it looks like our Millennial generation is it. But I think some of these people at Facebook are clueless. They literally do not know what they don’t know. And that is a crucial thing. To not know what you don’t know. To think you know everything.

I’m looking at pictures, I’m looking at Zuckerberg, I’m looking at some of these people, they simply have led lives that have been way too sheltered. They all are socialists, but they’ve never lived under it. They’re all socialists, but they’ve never visited a socialist country. They’re all socialists and they love it but they’ve never actually ever seen it. They’ve never actually had it properly taught to them.

They have a totally skewed definition of what it is. Facebook… Mr. Snerdley, let me ask you. Do you think, for example, the website Infowars and the Fox News website are identical? Facebook does. The people that run Facebook think there’s no difference in an Alt-Right website or Fox News or Infowars because they have a warped, bigoted, and prejudicial opinion of conservatives and conservatism — and where have they gotten that? It has been taught to them. They haven’t lived it.

They clearly haven’t lived among any conservatives or they could not possibly believe what they believe. Now they see the Facebook stock tumbling, and there’s a whole lot of reasons for this. It’s not just due to one thing. But it is due to the fact that they don’t know what they’re doing! They have a customer base that could be the biggest in the world and they’re willing to write off half of it — stupidly and arrogantly — by claiming that conservatism is where fake news is, that conservatism is where hate speech and all that is.

So my offer… I know that Zuckerberg has had meetings with several so-called conservatives. But he hasn’t met with me, and I am offering right here. I will meet with Zuckerberg or anybody on the Facebook executive panel and explain conservatism to them. Now, they will not take me up on it. They will not even acknowledge that the offer has been made. I understand that. But it’s ridiculous. It is literally ridiculous to have an enterprise this big run by people who are so ignorant.

[CatOwner]

I think everyone is kind of tiring of the whole thing, except those that spend all day on social media. Again, mostly grandmas.

Or most of the entertainment world. Athletes (particularly NBA players) are also ramping up usage. Again, a bunch of primarily liberal individuals telling everyone else how they should live their lives (see Eric Church, Anne Hathaway, ...).

[lodi90]

Actually, Facebook is becoming the new Myspace. Young people are leaving it in droves and it is seen as “what my grandma does.”
I think everyone is kind of tiring of the whole thing, except those that spend all day on social media. Again, mostly grandmas.

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Yep. Many are going to Instagram to stay connected with friends. It’s basically facebook without the shared post politics. Just pictures.

But facebook doesn’t care because they own that, too.

[cuban leaf]

But who’s bothering to read it except their own circle of posters/readers?

[elcid1970]

“I don’t use FaceBook. I don’t use SnapChat. I have a flip phone that doesn’t even allow texts. And I don’t Twitter, Tweet, or make other bird noises...

You and me both, FRiend. I’m not cut off from the world; I have a phone number & an email address, which is all I need for taking care of business.

Hope social media tanks in general, as users realize there is far too much personal data of theirs on line, ripe for data mining, government surveillance, or worse.

[cuban leaf]

But facebook doesn’t care because they own that, too.

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But ads cost only half as much.

When the selfie craze dies out, I wonder what will happen to Instagram.

[Alas Babylon!]

I understand where you’re coming from yet...

If no conservatives are ever going to fight back on the “bird noises” then it becomes an echo chamber. Fine, one can say, let it be so, but then it becomes like the Dubya Bush administration, nobly refusing to answer the spurious nasty attacks and charges, and those things, completely unchallenged, go on to be believed.

I’m not sure we should drop out.

We’re here, right, talking to each other via this forum, but we also need to be education these dumb, young oafs. Or to put it another way, teaching our children.

My gig (beside Free Republic) is Reddit. I get horribly downvoted there, but I am always polite and educate/dispute/counter with facts as much as possible. If If I can change one or two people at a time with a good counter argument (on things such as socialism is terrible, Trump is doing the country—and therefore them—good, conservatives DO NOT want to invoke the Handmaid’s Tale, etc., etc.) then I’ve done so much better than just talk about it on Free Republic.

Now that I’m semi-retired, I have plenty of time.

If you don’t want to do those things, I understand. It is often a lot of trouble for little result.

[CatOwner]

But who’s bothering to read it except their own circle of posters/readers?

A lot of times, the mostly garbage social dialogue gets rerouted into MSM reports. The latest with Eric Church and Anne Hathaway has been made "news". So, even if you are not on *any* social media outlet, you still end up barraged with its nonsense (I want *nothing* to do with the Kardashians, but its just about everywhere).

[Red Badger]

I heard it......................

[Darth Gill]

My son doesn’t want and won’t get a Facebook account. He loves Instagram though! I don’t understand the appeal.

[jagusafr]

Have to say, I just never got into Twitter. Most of the time I forget it’s even on my phone. I never got the appeal of short bursts of info that are often just links to somebody’s blog, etc.

[jagusafr]

Young people are leaving it in droves and it is seen as “what my grandma does.”
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Agreed, but I find it interesting that they crossfeed their Instagram posts to FB. My wife keeps telling me I have to go to Instagram to see what the kids are doing. Meh. Love my kids and seeing pics of my grandson, but who has time?

[Red Badger]

Me neither.

It is basically for egoists to magnify their self importance................