Usage Of Elon Musk’s X Dropped 30% In The Last Year, Study Suggests

You’re telling me the company that once had ads for T-Mobile and Volkswagen and now almost exclusively has ads where random bots with NFT photos advertise ChatGPT ‘services’ isn’t doing well financially??

What the fuck is the other 70%'s problem?

How much did human usage drop? Because there are a shitload more bots on twitter nowadays than there were in the years before he took over.

Ever since Musk's control of the company, Twitter (I refused to call it X) showed me multiple hate and racists posts. Basically, Twitter is showing me garbage. I now use Mastadon instead.

I'm back to calling it Twitter. (Not that I'm ever on it though.)

Needing to log in to view someones tweets means now I wont even visit the site when linked. Kinda the number 1 rule of platforms is to make them accessible to those that don't already use it, so as to convert them later. Musk, and everyone around him letting these decisions run through, are idiots

Good, but not good enough. It needs to be 0. And if you’re still on that shithole of a propaganda spreading platform- you’re supporting it.

I wrote this right as the first elon buying Twitter mentions were popping up...

Notably, Twitter facilitated communication during the arab spring, where the people organized to stand against and even overthrow several broken and corrupt government regimes throughout the middle east - including some participation in places like Saudi Arabia, for example.

Twitter's second largest investor after a musk takeover... the kingdom of Saudi Arabia and it's de facto leader who, among other things, killed and dismembered an American journalist without consequence somewhat recently.

And now Twitter is about to be killed... and dismembered.

What the fuck's "x"?

How the fuck is that all?

How could the jews do this to me :(

-Musk

That sounds like bragging. Why aren't more people stopping this crap?

Who the fuck is still on that shitpile? Dudes. Stahp.

Oh you mean Twitter?

Yeah, ‘X’ is never gonna happen.

I deleted my account and haven't missed it at all. Then again I was never good at making use of Twitter, it's too hectic and disorganized for me, and I have the same problem with mastodon.

How do you measure the percentage of people who never used it and are now saying "Oh hell no, not ever!"?

Doesn't surprise me. Musk has cultivated and emboldened racists, homophobes, cryptobros, misogynists, and the far right and the platform has turned into a cesspit. Meanwhile scammers & bots run rampant and the blueticks stink up every thread with cretinous remarks and trolling.

I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of people have just given up with it, or moved to another social media that isn't so toxic.

I'm part of the 70%.

I use it exclusively for gay furry porn.

I've been using Bluesky more. It is better with feeds and a way less toxic general user base.

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The 2022 and 2023 usage data was gathered through a national telephone survey of about 1,500 people aged 12 and older—further details and methodology for the 2024 usage data will be released on March 28, according to Edison.

What an interesting choice for collection method when you're assessing a social media website in 2024.

I would find it more plausible that only 30% remains.

Concerning

The whole Musk takeover is much less relevant (in the sense of interesting) for people outside the western context. I asked a few friends in Japan why they still use Twitter, but they just don't care about the platform and ownership as long as they can still interact with their friends there. Curious how the botification will affect that over time, though.

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Well If you take in account how hard has "The Chief Xit" tried to destroy Twitter and piss off anyone using it, this is actually unexpectadly good result! More Powah to the Man Child 😂 . Also - there is no longer the $1 payment for account creation - I guess bot traffic is better than no traffic 😂.

“suggests” is a pretty weak level of conviction

I miss the OC porn and algorithms but it's whatever. I like Mastodon

It's a shame that other platforms that are growing for artists is just another monopoly one (bluesky) or defederated from everything and even bans the use of VPN to access it now (misskey.io).

Where did those people go. Some Mastodon,Bluesky but the Rest?

Twitter's for #fascists.

Well If you take in account how hard has "The Chief Xit" tried to destroy Twitter and piss off anyone using it, this is actually unexpectadly good result! More Powah to the Man Child 😂 . Also - there is no longer the $1 payment for account creation - I guess bot traffic is better than no traffic 😂.