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Jay Peters

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    Skittish, the virtual event platform that let you be an adorable animal avatar, is shutting down.

    “There isn’t enough demand to keep it going, probably a combination of an overall decline in demand for virtual events and its niche featureset, and it requires ongoing support and maintenance that’s hard for me to provide on my own,” Baio said in a blog post. I had a lot of fun with an early version.

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    Jay Peters
    “Where did the Tweeters Go?”

    Internal Twitter research seen by Reuters indicates that the number of “heavy tweeters,” which is already low, is in “absolute decline.”

    These “heavy tweeters” account for less than 10% of monthly overall users but generate 90% of all tweets and half of global revenue. Heavy tweeters have been in “absolute decline” since the pandemic began, a Twitter researcher wrote in an internal document titled “Where did the Tweeters Go?”