Twitter's Decline

It's just the new "twitter doesn't scale". They'll get bored and move onto something else.

Why do we need anything to replace Twitter?

Twitter may have the same problem. The core Twitter experience was popular. Most of the additional features, not so much.

Bigger issue is no developer trusts twitter any more. Just like LinkedIn. twitter has been unkind to the developers which helped it make popular. Remember things like lists, hashtags, media embed are all brought to twitter before twitter did so itself. But developers of these innovations were treated badly. And hence no developer wants to develop for twitter platform any more.

Unless Bluesky or Threads tap into the Zeitgeist, Twitter isn't going anywhere. As much as whatever political side would love to see it falter, those invested in its downfall might have to temper their expectations. Twitter is a mirror of the human fabric — messy, contradictory, brutal. For all its flaws, it's the only service that reflects society's pulse in real-time.

Twitter must not be saved. If its gone, other services more efficient (probably) replace it, how facebook replace myspace and other services.

A twitter replacement could gain traction if they practically duplicated twitter's api so they could try and convince 3rd party devs(the people who made twitter) to support this new service in their apps. But really, twitter has to make money. This is no different from any other service. Even if all the 'nerds' leave twitter they will still have millions of users and will continue to be a huge service for 'normal' people. Just like Facebook.

Seems to me like this will be the reason Twitter fades away and dies eventually.

He's a hack. Nothing really can be done with Twitter. It's effectively an IRC client. Should never have been a big public company.

Infrastructure disappearing off Twitter is probably a Bad Thing, and may have been the endgame all along.