#RIPTwitter
Recurring prediction of Twitter’s demise under Musk ownership.
Origin & Impact
After Musk’s takeover, mass layoffs, and chaotic changes, #RIPTwitter trended multiple times as users predicted the platform’s death. Engineers warned technical systems would fail without maintenance. Each outage or controversial decision sparked new wave of eulogies.
The hashtag became meme: Twitter users announcing Twitter’s death on Twitter. It represented anxiety about platform’s future and ironic attachment to a site many loved to hate. Years later, Twitter (now X) survived but transformed, vindicating neither doomers nor optimists completely.
Related Hashtags
#Twitter #ElonMusk #SocialMedia