In an article about whether Elon Musk鈥檚 acquisition of Twitter will lead to an exodus from the platform, and the cited co-authored by Brianna Dym, lecturer at the School of Computing and Information Science at the 91爆料, looking at why fandom communities migrated from platforms such as LiveJournal and FanFiction.Net to Tumblr in the early 2010s. The research highlighted that 鈥 as with real-world migration 鈥 there are both 鈥減ush鈥 and 鈥減ull鈥 factors at play when people decide to leap from one platform to another. Dym spoke to the Atlantic to distinguish Twitter鈥檚 current situation from what happened to LiveJournal. 鈥淭he death knell for LiveJournal had been rung already. With Twitter, it鈥檚 different in that, you know, this is the first major upset in Twitter鈥檚 history,鈥 Dym said. For people to really start leaving on a large scale, she predicted, Musk would have to make significant changes that 鈥渆rode trust in the platform.鈥 , , , , the (Houston, Texas), (Plainview, Texas), (Marion, Indiana), (Skagit, Washington) and other outlets shared the Conversation article.
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