Twitter & Noah’s Ark

How people are trying to migrate their community away from Twitter in case it all goes down.

Noah's Ark floating in water in the rain — Image by Jeff Jacobs from Pixabay

I’m seeing a lot of what I’m calling Noah’s Ark going on Twitter. In case you didn’t know. Elon Musk bought Twitter and the old board at Twitter wanted to sell to Musk because they were losing money. Now it seems as Twitter is losing even more money and Musk is screwing things up and Twitter may go bankrupt; and that’s just this week. lol

Anyway people are leaving Twitter or at least setting up in case Twitter goes down. Basically what I’m calling Noah’s Arking. They are trying to gather together all the animals of a community 2 x 2 to save them from the flood. People are trying to get their friends and members of their community to navigate to whatever new platform they have gone to.

All this Noah’s Ark running around. And most of us have been through at least 1 social media breakdown and none of the Noah’s Arks saved the communities the way they were that were on those platforms. Yet, all the communities have survived in one way or another. People find each other. That’s the social of social media. But for all the copying in social media none of them are the same community one to the other. Your TikTokers are not the same as your YouTubers and neither is the audience. Yet … look and there are the same communities. Authors, artists, nsfw, pervs, swers, priests and sinners.

I’ve seen a number of social failures. From MySpace to MSN communities Electronic Bulletin Boards to virtual worlds. Yet another pops up. Bigger and more varied than the previous one or smaller and more niche. They don’t disappear though. However not everyone I knew is at the same place. The writing community of Twitter is not the same as the Instagram writing community and those are not the same people who had Geocities pages for their writing back in the day. Are there some of the same people? Of course. Do they interact the same way? No. Not only are the way that people interact different on different platforms but people change and are not the same. And that sometimes changes from place to place, certainly from platform to platform.

All of that to say when migrating from one social media platform to the other don’t be surprised if you ark springs a few leaks and some members go missing or the engagement is not there. The community is unlikely to die. Things will carry on. Just with different people and in different ways. Happy swimming folks!