YSK that X (Twitter) trails behind Snapchat and Pinterest
YSK that X (Twitter) trails behind Snapchat and Pinterest
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Why YSK:
Although politicians and journalists often treat it like major platform, or even the "digital town square," X is fairly minor social media platform. The various Meta platforms (including Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram, and Messenger) have combined 10 billion monthly active users. X (Twitter) is about 5.5% that size. It trails behind not only the obvious giants like Meta, Google (YouTube) and TikTok (Douyin), but also well behind platforms that are exclusive to one country or region, like WeChat or Weibo, and behind "also-rans" like Snapchat, Reddit, and Pinterest.
X is not a major platform. It has continued to struggle with outages, trolling, user exodus, and now a little more than an Internet ghost town.