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There has been a rush to messagings apps since last week. There is even cross currents within messaging apps. There has been an exodus form WhatsApp to other apps. But then they too are subject to similar pressures. It's ironic that you now have to be based outside the US to flee Zuckerberg and Dorsey.
Been in IT for 40 years. Something always replaces something. When I started out there was a saying that nobody every got fired for buying IBM. At the time they had a strangle hold. In the consumer market who owns an IBM now? No one.
Messagings apps predate Tweeter, so we are kind of going back. Telegram just announced they surpassed 500 million users, 25 million of them in the past 72 hours. Something is happening.
Messagings apps predate Tweeter, so we are kind of going back. Telegram just announced they surpassed 500 million users, 25 million of them in the past 72 hours. Something is happening.
Hmmm, 5 months later, and the question still isn't answered.
It is my understanding that Telegram can be used for "group chats" of some sort. Can it hold a thread open for several days, even if everyone one who posted to that thread has moved on?
Personally I have been exploring Gab, and it seems like a twitter replacement. I had hoped for more, and maybe the next version of it will get there, but I don't think either Telegram or Gab is replacing the Farcebook, yet.
Wrong demographic to predict a replacement...look at what the kids are using(TikTok/Instagram/etc). Eventually the parents and grandparents hop on and then the kids move on to the next replacement.
Wrong demographic to predict a replacement...look at what the kids are using(TikTok/Instagram/etc). Eventually the parents and grandparents hop on and then the kids move on to the next replacement.
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Twitter and Facebook will one day be as relevant as Smith-Corona and Alta Vista
Sure, right after Windows and eBay see their replacements.
We're not in the Wild West days of tech. Monopolies have been formed. Influence has been purchased. These companies are now entrenched in government, as well as in culture.
They literally control the public conversation, and work with politicians to steer those conversations to be politically beneficial. The pols aren't going to let that get away, so they'll protect the monopolies. How many times has Jack Dorsey or Mark Zuckerberg appeared in front of the senate? About a million now? What's been done? Nothing. And nothing will be done.
Your points are valid, and things will change, but neither Facebook nor Twitter are going anywhere. Not for a long time, anyway, and it'll effectively be a government decision, not a consumer one, if/when it happens. They're part of the ruling infrastructure now.
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