Since billionaire Elon Musk took over Twitter, many ARMYs have been concerned about the big change in the ARMY community on this social network. To date, many moves by BTS's fan accounts and fansites on Twitter show signs of having to close.
It is in the flow of events about Twitter's recent change. In particular, after the news that Twitter will soon be down due to Elon Musk's new working policy, ARMYs become even more worried.
Here's what's happening with ARMY on Twitter:
From the time BTS started their debut until the golden age of BTS began, Twitter seems to be the most useful and wonderful tool to help them spread the message around the world without spending too much time and money. It must be said that BTS has built a strong foundation of the ARMY community on this platform.
Therefore, ARMY using Twitter is also very crowded, it seems that they all own at least 1 account. However, when Elon Musk started his Twitter acquisition and many people realized that he was going to clean up accounts that were supposed to be used by fans, ARMY was worried that these ARMY accounts would be deactivated.
ARMYs then had a move to Weverse and even back to some other platforms like Facebook or Instagram. But the fastest and most visible high-quality news and image updates still have no comparable platform to Twitter. Therefore, many large fansites and famous fan accounts that provide images and information about BTS are still active on this platform.
But this morning, a news made everyone have to consider another option if this really happened to Twitter. Specifically, Reuters reported that the latest version of Twitter that technical staff use is starting to show signs of slowing down. According to a source close to Twitter, Twitter is in danger of crashing tonight: "If Twitter goes down, there will be no one left to fix it."
According to Downdetector - a website specializing in monitoring website and application outages, there have been about 350 reports of Twitter outages as of Thursday night. This is believed to be the result of Elon Musk. Recently laid off a series of technical staff, including Twitter executives and senior executives. This is tantamount to Twitter losing the people who built and operated it.
According to CNBC news agency, a wave of massive layoffs of Twitter employees is taking place after new boss Elon Musk warned of a new harsher working environment. Immediately after the announcement, hundreds of employees out of nearly 3,000 remaining of the company announced their departure.
According to The Verge, with the current rate of layoffs, soon Twitter was in crisis due to lack of manpower. In addition, without key engineers and creating chaos within the company, Twitter will hardly operate effectively. Although Elon Musk has brought in some engineers from his other companies, such as Tesla, many of them are just getting used to the operation of Twitter, a whole new area for the billionaire.
Faced with the risk of losing all data and losing followers on Twitter, there are many large fan accounts and ARMY fansites on this platform that have backed up data to accounts on other SNS sites. Some still operate in parallel on different platforms and announce new accounts on other platforms so fans can keep up to date in the event Twitter is wiped out.
If this is indeed the case, the ARMY community in particular and the K-pop fan community in general will have the largest exodus in history from Twitter to other SNSs. But it also means that a large and long-standing data warehouse will be lost!
