Can Twitter save itself with PR?

The platform’s user growth is stagnating and active users are on the decline. According to this author, some smart PR could revive it.

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I have a fresh understanding of what dementia caretakers go through, since damage to his poor brain is causing similar behavioral and memory changes.

With this week’s announcement of Twitter’s declining growth and press speculation around its potential demise, I feel like I’m now also losing my best social media friend, too. Twitter is my favorite platform and the thought of it losing steam as a valuable social media tool makes me very unhappy.

Twitter’s huge problem in one chart http://t.co/PUdltWSa4A pic.twitter.com/W3TlDcslYc

— Business Insider (@businessinsider) July 29, 2015

The below infographic from Instavest outlines the major issues pretty well.

For many, social media is like a virtual friend, a place to find empathy, support and help when they need it the most.

Even though Facebook is the world’s favorite social media platform for personal reasons, Twitter has always been my go-to platform when it comes to business. It’s my favorite social media platform for a variety of reasons.

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