Platforms don't die like biological things do. They age and change until their core user base is alienated and the platform is then tucked neatly in a corner to operate in the shadows for the next 30 years.

Think about it like Craigslist. It will still be around in 5 years but it won't be culturally relevant like it was. Just like Craigslist is still technically around, but no one talks about it and I don't know anyone who uses it.

Twitter is too big to fail completely in the near future, just like Craigslist was.

Long answer is no.

AOL and Yahoo are still around, so I don't think it'll ever completely disappear. But it's going to keep becoming more and more irrelevant by the day indefinitely.

Elon has to much Ego to just let it die. He'll prop it up and keep it running. It'll just be like Myspace, slowly becoming forgotten.

Twitter won’t just up and die, they will slowly fade into obscurity over years. It has already begun with Elon alienating almost everyone but his sycophants and right wing propaganda bots, which causes a slow drain of the moderate users until nothing is left but the worst people, turning it into a personal echo chamber for him and his agenda.

Musk is the richest man on Earth, give or take a few billion here or there. He can keep it running as long as he wants. It's nothing but a toy to him. The problem will start when he finally gets bored of it, because he has already broken it to the point that nobody else will want it. He has killed it, it's just not dead yet as long as he keeps swinging it around and paying its bills. But one day he'll stop doing that, maybe once he finds a new, shinier toy. We just don't know when.

It's only gonna shut down if people finally stop complaining and migrate to another platform.

Which they're absolutely not doing right now...

To be blunt, it won't die until people stop talking about it constantly. But even if it doesn't die, it's a useless site to anyone with half a brain.

Everybody in this thread is guessing.

Musk bought it, so it's a private company, now. It'll stay up as long as he wants it to stay up. How long are you going to keep your Minecraft server online? As long as you want to, right? Same thing, larger scale.

If he wants to close up shop, he can do that. If he wants to operate it regardless of revenue for the next 10 or 20 years, he can do that, too. He could also sell it, and then the next owners would decide what happens.

Is this karma farming post?

Not soon enough.

There are vested interests who could probably keep it afloat on their own dime alone, and it would be worth every penny if they were forced to do so. It’s a ready made propaganda platform with a built in audience and sympathetic leadership. The only reason they’re trying to make profit with it is because it’s less money out of donor and investor pockets.

It's probably some sensational headline. Twitter is too big to fail. And Elon wants to convert it into his idea of an everything-app. So he will probably not kill it tomorrow either. And there currently isn't a competitor that is enticing customers away at any alarming rate. So no reason to think it is collapsing.

Mastodon is a much better alternative to Twitter/X.

Not anytime soon.

No.