A Twitter Exodus Could Mean the End of Some Online Magazines

But for some, simply migrating to a new platform isn't just a minor annoyance. Online publications that depend on the social media site for their community's longevity worry that a potential Twitter shutdown could be a fatal turn. "We could lose like a third of our readers right there," Uncanny Magazine co-publisher and co-editor in chief Michael Damian Thomas told Jezebel. Thomas had originally expressed their concerns in a tweet from earlier this week, arguing that "the death of Twitter would decimate the science fiction and fantasy short story ecosystem."