The Alt Clud Review of Books

  Have you heard the news? The marketplace is filled with the gossip, guards on the walls grimly discuss it down in their barracks while in the forum it’s tidings are whispered by the frantic senators. Meanwhile lone St Jerome sits in his monastic cell gently weeping, for all are saying that Twitter, the Great and Mighty, has fallen… or is about to fall, depending on who is telling the story. Yes, you’ve probably heard the news by now – Twitter is dying. In fact, when I first thought to write this post earlier this week, it seemed that its death might only be a possibility, but now it seems the writing is definitely on the wall. Increasing numbers of people are searching for alternative sites, others like myself are just sharing links to our other social media accounts so that (in theory) the end of twitter might not be the end of every virtual interaction made during our time on here [1] . And now as the band begins to play the final tune, I thought it would be a fitting opp...