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 do think "Twitter" is dead. The product is very different now and serves a different function, i.e. we talk about here wrt social media vs social network.  Admittedly I haven't read the article you linked but it feels consistent with his views, the Twitter he knew is dead and X has been born in its place.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_of_Theseus

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Even the social graph is becoming less relevant with the algorithmic feed

X is a content network now. Different goals with the same social graph.