Twitter usage in US ‘fallen by a fifth’ since Elon Musk’s takeover

www.theguardian.com Twitter usage in US ‘fallen by a fifth’ since Elon Musk’s takeover

App users for social media site, rebranded as X, down by 23% since November 2022 according to Sensor Tower

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Article say it’s down 23% in the US and 15% globally. I’m surprised that there wasn’t a bigger drop in usage. Maybe there are more bots propping up the numbers?
- Definitely lots of bots. Which, of course, Elon said he would get rid of once he took over.
  
  Except once he took over, he realized that the bots are part of the business and profit model of the service so he figured out enough to shut his idiot mouth. Which is saying something really.
- There's a lot of people who just refuse to leave. They'll complain and make fun of Musk, but they just can't pull the trigger and leave. It's the and for reddit and a lot of other sites as well.
"Musk did that on purpose to save money on servers and bandwidth."
- “He’s just weeding out brown people and large advertisers
- A brilliant strat!
  
  You jest, but I can somehow guarantee that Musk's response will be in the line of "We didn't want those people anyway."
ONLY 20%?????
- It seems low, unless you remove all the bot accounts from the equation and then it's probably closer to 30%
Musk would be doing much better as a billionaire if he just kept his mouth shut.

And not do boneheaded moves like rebranding Twitter to X.

Let's take a household name that most companies would kill for to get that sort of everyday recognition and change it to the most generic shit ever and get rid of the Tweety bird. Marketing disaster.
- He could just retire and live a life of luxury. But he craves power as well as money.
  
  It's true he craves power but more than anything he craves validation that he's a cool smart dude, which he really isn't.
I went on there yesterday and it felt like falling down a fascist rabbit hole. It's a completely different site.
My personal theory is that if he publicly appeals to right wing ideology more people overall will buy his cars lol. The Twitter shit is just piece of that.
- If it gets the right to embrace electric vehicles, that's a good thing, right?
  
  Remember that electric cars were invented to save the car industry; not the planet.
I deleted my account, but then I made a junk account to follow links there when someone says "check this out". There are probably a lot of people like me who just follow links, troll a couple of blue-checks, and then close it.
Use of Twitter in the US has slumped by more than a fifth since Elon Muskbought the site and rebranded it to X, according to data from app-monitoring company Sensor Tower.

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