18 months later, it looks like this piece from Eugene was... not correct? 

To be fair, lots of other people were calling for Twitter's death at this time. And Eugene's claim was vague enough to escape prosecution: 

"This past year, for the first time, I could see the end of the road for Twitter. Not in an abstract way; I felt its decline. Don’t misunderstand me; Twitter will persist in a deteriorated state, perhaps indefinitely. However, it's already a pale shadow of what it was at its peak."

For him, Twitter ~does~ feel dead. But that's like graduating college and returning to campus and saying "none of my friends are here anymore, this place is dead." 

Social networks, like any social institution, can evolve and change. You may not like it, but that doesn't mean it's dead, or even less relevant. That's just part of growing up.

18 months later, it looks like this piece from Eugene was... not correct? 

To be fair, lots of other people were calling for Twitter's death at this time. And Eugene's claim was vague enough to escape prosecution: 

"This past year, for the first time, I could see the end of the road for Twitter. Not in an abstract way; I felt its decline. Don’t misunderstand me; Twitter will persist in a deteriorated state, perhaps indefinitely. However, it's already a pale shadow of what it was at its peak."

For him, Twitter ~does~ feel dead. But that's like graduating college and returning to campus and saying "none of my friends are here anymore, this place is dead." 

Social networks, like any social institution, can evolve and change. You may not like it, but that doesn't mean it's dead, or even less relevant. That's just part of growing up.

https://www.eugenewei.com/blog/2023/7/6/how-to-blow-up-a-timeline

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I think there are broadly 2 ways to value a social network: based on the users it has and based on the users it could get. I’m curious to see how / if musk can solve for the second one as the first fragments.