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24 slightly depressing stats on the fall of Twitter

Published on 2016/04/05 By admin

Despite its die-hard loyal user base, Twitter has been doing nothing but rubbing its fans up the wrong way for the last 12 months. Whether its been the adoption of a dreaded algorithm, a mooted 10,000 character increase , the killing of its share counts , the pointlessness of ‘Moments’, heck even changing its ‘favourite’ button from a star to a heart was a massive thing , there’s a good chance that if you log-in to Twitter you’ll find people kicking-off about Twitter. Much of this is down to the very fact that its users, especially its long-term ones who rode the crest of its initial popularity, are so loyal to the channel and don’t want to see it mutated beyond its unique purpose: serving concise sound-bites and sharing links in real-time