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In reply to the discussion: are there a lot less posters here now? The site traffic.... when looking at replies seems [View all]Drunken Irishman
(34,857 posts)It's not just DU - it's sports and other specific interest message boards I belong to, and have belonged to, for years that are seeing less traffic overall. With the creation of twitter, especially, there isn't as much a need for these message boards.
The reality is that, ten years ago, DU was the breaking news center - the nervous system, if you will, of liberal politics. You came here to get the news. I remember being on DU under my old account when Al Gore endorsed Howard Dean and this was the first place I saw it. Now that happens on twitter. I will see something on twitter break, come over here and it's not posted for another five or so minutes.
I just that's just the cycle. It's easier to tweet and an easier source for information than message boards. It's the same with a football message board I posted at for years. I used to get breaking news there - now the breaking news is on twitter before it's posted there.