Great. Why are people still linking to x?
They’re still banning or driving away anyone outside of Musk’s echo chamber.
The vast majority of users are not big time contributors to the site’s quality content. But the content creators had the biggest targets on their back for retaliation. After so many bans over such a long period, there’s just less and less people to post quality content for the majority to consume.
Cracking down on narrative control doesn’t force the public to see things your way. It just drives them to other, more relevant platforms. Not sure how many times we need to go through this cycle for them to understand how futile this is.
ARTISTS, JOURNALISTS, POLITICIANS, LEAVE TWITTER NOW, YOU IDIOTS
Sports journalists in particular — so annoying that all breaking NFL news goes through Xitter.
TAYLOR SWIFT WE NEED YOU! WHERE ARE YOU? DON’T LEAVE US WE NEED HELP!
This is obviously tounge in check but it feels closer to real than it should be.
And in Mexico, Nicaragua, Honduras, Panama, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, and Buenos Aires, no es possible, nadie Vuela mas barato!
In X’s EU user base report consisting of data from February to July 2023, Musk’s social media platform had 112.2 million monthly active users in the EU. In the following six month period from August 2023 to January 2024, that number dropped to 111.4 million users.
That’s a minuscule drop % wise
X’s most recent report, covering February to July 2024, showed that its user base in the EU fell once more to 105.9 million.
And these are datapoints they release themselves, 3rd party data points hint at bigger losses.
You only need to hop on for 30s or so to realize why people wouldn’t feel inclined to spend time there unless it to quickly bathe one’s self in fascism and misinformation.
Sort of what America will feel like if Elon gets his scummy hands on political power.
If we can just get it to fail completely that’d be great, if that’ll make him a non billionaire
True, but we live in an economy that only rewards growth…
It’s even worse in social media, because most users that sign up stop using it at some point.
So the product can die pretty quick if they don’t generate new users, especially when they alienate old ones.
Indeed. Active users (say, used within the past month) is a much better metric.
I often wonder about this for many (especially older) YouTube channels - your channel is 15 years old, how many of your 500k subscribers actually still watch or even have active accounts?
I wonder what subscriber growth rate a typical YouTube channel needs just in order to maintain a consistent level of watchers?
It’s only a good metric if half of them aren’t bots.
You’re assuming he gives a shit about how much profit it’s making.
It’s not a public company, it’s now his private playground to try to get millions of people to see only the “free speech” he wants them to see, and exert political influence.
I see you attended the same business school as Elon. Yeah, great observation: businesses hate growth, and want to see miniscule declines, it shows strength!!
It went down hill fast. The amount of right-wing propaganda skyrocketed … weird
When I logged in about six weeks after the ownership change my feed included Elon Musk, Andrew Tate and 2-3 other right wing influencers. I follow none of these people, I have zero interest in what they have to say and I find them reprehensible. I deleted my account and haven’t used the platform since.
I stopped in today after months because my friend is launching a game and I wanted to give them a like and a comment. When I left Twitter my feed was just nerd shit and makers.
When I logged in today it was several right wing advertisements at the top. When I went to search it was more Trump shit. I just wanted to support my indie friend. That’s it for me.
I’ve just had to look out a morbid curiosity and yeah it’s all Trump. I am being encouraged to vote for Donald Trump. This is a man who is to anathema pretty much all of my beliefs, of course I’m not going to vote for him he seriously wants to be a dictator.
Also, I’m not American so I can’t vote for him anyway.
I already voted so I can’t vote for him either.
Tell your friend he should consider Bluesky
The only person I had blocked on Twitter before I deleted my account was Elon.
I swear I couldn’t be that annoying if I tried.
Yeah same. When he started topping my feed despite me blocking him I ejected from his platform and washed my hands of the whole thing.
I wonder if the right-wing content actually has increased, or if it’s just the ratio of it compared to left-wing content as much of the left has seemingly abandoned the platform.
My feed was almost entirely non-political to begin with, and personally, I’ve hardly noticed any difference, though the little politics that do get thru tend to indeed lean right.
Maybe. I only use it to troll them now, so maybe I stepped on my own foot.
I post gay porn. The number or right-wing rednecks that follow me with their public profiles is… confusing.
Who cares about users when Nazi ceo is high on Russian bot army
These billionaire special snowflakes sure go through a lot of effort to build safe spaces for themselves
He’s burning it to the ground to try to get Trump elected.
I’m hoping he can burn both to the ground
Anyone else that cannot read this article? When I try to scroll it just don’t move…
No issues on android Firefox with ad blocker
Threads is better 😁
X sucks, but Threads is even worse. 99% of everything I have ever seen on Threads is pure distilled engagement bait, and half the time expanding replies gets stuck loading. I wish I were exaggerating, but I’m not.
99% of everything I have ever seen on Threads is pure distilled engagement bait,
That sounds exactly like XTwitter…
It’s even worse on Threads, believe it or not.
