Twitter (X) loses over 30% of users in two months!
Twitter (X) loses over 30% of users in two months!
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Twitter (X) loses over 30% of users in two months!
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(citation needed) Seriously there are zero sources, numbers and article ends with a typical interaction bait. As a Turkish person who knows the Turkish shiftdelete I was almost happy that they have an English version for global market but not this tabloid like junk.
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Downloads doesn't mean usage. I really hope it happens one day but it isn't currently the case. We need governments, politicians and media to wake up.
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Xwitter is a Nazi hate cesspool. I deleted my account not long after Musk took over. I would be delighted to see it fail, and Musk brought down a few notches.
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I use X pretty much daily and I have no idea where you are getting this from. Haven't seen a single nazi post.
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That's 30% less downloads, not 30% less traffic . I am not sure how that translates to current users.
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Good question..
There's always some background noise in installs. People get new devices constantly and they'd usually download it again. Those are fewer
Then there's usually some consistent downloads from new users. Those are probably down
Traffic being down is a good measure and that's dropping too
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I’m skeptical of this article, but I know my own usage went to almost 0 because of how awful the bots and trolls are now. Blue checks are prioritized in the comment section and they’re usually awful people or maybe paid trolls or bots, and it makes the app unusable and unpleasant. That’s really the thing that killed it for me.
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A lot of big-fat-jerks on there lately. 🤷♂️
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I never used Twitter or X or the company formally known as Twitter or whatever the hell we're calling it now but how did the prioritization work before? Was it just sorted by most retweets or likes?
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Xitter (pronounced "Shitter")
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"According to a report published by popular research companies"
I'd like to know to whom "popular research companies" refers, and by what means they're measuring "losing 30% of users".
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Thank you for that link, because I was also feeling like this article was being pretty sketchy by not giving any links or sources.
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You haven't heard of "Dude" and "Trust me, bro"? They're incredibly popular research companies.
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Is he doing this on purpose? He has to be right? What's the end goal? Was his only goal to destroy Twitter? It's fascinating
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https://gizmodo.com/twitter-saudi-arabia-x-jack-dorsey-areej-al-sadhan-abdu-1850805085
Probably bought it to kill some democracies (USA included) since people seem easy to brainwash
https://www.newsweek.com/elon-musks-twitter-takeover-faces-backlash-over-saudi-financing-1755606
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Well he only ended up buying Twitter because he was forced to when he tried to back out after signing a contract. If he's stupid enough to do that he's stupid enough to ruin the platform through sheer incompetence. That being said, killing Twitter basically helps out him/his financers so I'd suspect at least some of it is on purpose.
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Yeah I've stopped using Xwitter entirely. Musk is an idiot capitalist who ruins everything he touches.
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I tried to use it to follow people in crypto but even many of those who stayed are now retweeting right wing conspiracy theories and anti science articles. Twitter is a disgusting hole of hate.
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Wow, who would have thought that crypto people, the dumbest people on the entire Internet, would end up posting rw conspiracies.
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I just couldn't have seen this coming. /s
Combine it with this:
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And they keep on trying to inflate the userbase with bot accounts whose bios are weird and mostly contain suspicious links, amd use those same bots to randomly like anyone's new
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I think they're pronounced "skeets" now (xeets)
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Skeet skeet motherfucka
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"Exeet"
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Boy do I wish the same thing would happen to Meta.
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not only that, but i sure do hope mark fuckerberg goes broke in the process.
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That’s ok, they’ll make up for it by adding 30% more bots.
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my usage tanked a lot when he took over, but it's more or less done for good when tweetdeck went premium. I check in on one account now, and occasionally still bitch at customer service accounts. Other than that, Im at mastodon and bluesky.
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Same. I have deleted all my tweets/likes/follows and keep the account just as a way to reach customer service accounts (which usually work much better on Twitter/X than by phone/email).
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That's actually a lot. I didn't think it would be that much. I try not to give into hype but if these numbers are true this might actually be Twitter dying. There is also no going back with some of the decisions elon made.
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I don't think I need to buy gold or boner pills though.
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Deleted mine even though I actually only used it to read some accounts. It's unfortunate because there's some very knowledgeable people there but I'm not having anything to do with that dickbag.
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I'm one of them
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I haven't deleted my account but it's been dormant for a while. I guess at some point it'll get deleted if I don't touch it, which... fine, I guess.
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Shit article, love the sentiment though! 😁
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According to a report published by popular research companies,
Yeah I smell bullshit. I suspect it's going pretty badly for the thing formerly known as Twitter, but this article doesn't show anything, but merely makes a bunch of claims. There is no documented data, and no sources stated.
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Thanks way better article.
the app's downloads fell by almost 30% compared with the preceding two months,
Very different from losing 30% of users the OP headline claims.
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I'm one of them!
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o7 Thank you for your service!
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Well, I'm obviously a fediverse user now. Mastodon.world answered donation needs too!
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I’m happy to say I’ve not used Twitter since they killed third party apps. Same reason I stopped using Reddit. Many other issues contributed, but in both cases the third party app situation was the breaking point.
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Y'know, I had a love/hate relationship to twitter in the before-elon times.
On the one hand, it was a strange, toxic brew of hellish nonsense and porn On the other hand, there was a critical mass of engaged experts on lots of subjects, weighing in on current events in near-real-time.
It was like having the history faculty of several colleges on hand when historical questions came up, but in order to get their takes on anything you'd have to wade through trolls and bots and fascist sycophants to get there.
I'm a sucker for learning things and I'll put up with a lot for the pleasure of feeding my brain but by the time Elon took the reigns the signal:noise ratios had gone too far negative to be worth it.
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How long before he starts asking the government for a bailout. Is Twitter to big to fail?
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Bailouts can't fix a dwindling user base, unless he literally starts paying regular people to use it
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Didn't he start asking regular people to pay to use it? Like a read limit or something... I don't really follow the 𝕏 drama anymore.
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I am a Twitter "user" in the sense that I read the site for a few minutes every few days to see the latest news or drama.
Recently all the Elon drama is boring. So I'm in that decreased user count.
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70% to go!!
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I believe in us. We can bring that number to 60% or higher by the end of this year, if we all do our part.
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Musk: "Totally intentional, everyone. This is exactly what I planned for. I am, however, going to sue the US Government for allowing freedom of the press to report it."
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I uninstalled the app after the rebrand. Twitter bird used occasionally, X app sat there looking like a porn app so I uninstalled.
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if you were a tweeter user you have no choice, it is now your X or your ex... social media
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Good! Though I'm sure many will move to Threads
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Yay
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I'm all for shitting on Xitter, but this is a pretty bad article. It's written like somebody put it through Google Translate a few times, and doesn't cite any sources for any of its claims. Closest I could find was this Business Insider story on a report by Apptopia, which only says that its downloads in various app stores declined 30%, not its overall userbase.
Yes the article is junk. Yet it feeds my confirmation bias in a pleasing way.
Hey bro, Twitter sucks!
(I hope that helps too)
Un-fact checked, poorly seemingly AI written, citing no sources? So you're saying it's perfect for Twitter?
And every other link sharing site unfortunately. Lemmy included.
I haven't had the chance to look up the data myself, but if downloads did decline in a way that's unprecedented its a strong loss leader. To be really interesting though you'd have to couple it with other metrics.
Edit: There are people implying they work or worked at Twitter. They didn't.
Declining downloads simply means a slowing of growth, whereas this is claiming a user decline. That only shows up in traffic logs, transit commits, or CDN account usage data.
You mean I got my pitchfork out for nothing?
Guess I’ll put it away…
Imagine paying 40 billion for it too. The moron is so disconnected, I hope he gets butt cancer.
I was thinking the same thing. I couldn't figure out if it was AI or translated (or both).
Downloads did plummet after the name change. But likely because non-tech nerds have no idea the name changed.