Find the value of X. nerd

The number of monthly users of X dropped by 15% in the first year since Musk’s takeover amid concerns over a rise in hate speech on the platform.

It really is slowly dying.

  • ReadFanon [any, any]
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    10 months ago

    What we're not seeing is granular data on their userbase, not that we ever will, but I'd venture a guess that it's much more damning than that 15% represents.

    To illustrate my point, take my experience with the Reddit API changes. This was the absolute last straw for that shithole for me.

    I still have an account on Reddit. I still dip into a couple of very niche subs to check on them and to provide info to people where I can, but almost exclusively through DMs. Sometimes articles redirect me to a Reddit source. Fairly commonly, search results for things like tech fixes direct me to Reddit.

    I'm still a Reddit user (🤢🤮)
    I would still be represented in their monthly user stats.
    Even if I deleted my account, I would still visit Reddit at least once a month (this is even more applicable to how closely connected the news media and Twitter are.)

    Do I comment on Reddit anymore? Nah.
    Do I upvote or downvote things on Reddit? Very rarely.
    Do I spend any significant amount of time browsing Reddit these days? Nope.
    Have I switched from being an active contributor on Reddit, which is probably like 10% of their total active userbase, to being almost entirely passive? Yep.

    Idk (because I don't care about Twitter beyond enjoying watching it implode and the anticipation of this potentially taking Elon with it) but I have a hunch that they've had a huge decline in their active contributors and especially those who made Twitter a valuable social media site (in the sense that you're always going to get trolls, bots, marketers and those really vapid chain response tweets as a form of low-value content but there's a certain amount of active contributors who create something of value which attracts other users - and those are the really important users. If that cohort of people shift from high-value contributions to passive consumption or occasionally dipping in only to answer DMs or because of a link redirecting them to Twitter then the site is moribund.)

    • voight [he/him, any]
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      10 months ago

      I've killed all my gimmick accounts and shit even. When I see a tweet I hate too much to ignore I just make a whole new account and start trying to rip off the face of everyone on there who annoyed me in the last 12 hours

      I really hope I'm doing my part to drive away the last remaining profitable users.

      • ReadFanon [any, any]
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        10 months ago

        Our strongest soldier in the protracted people's war against Twitter equity

        o7

    • rootsbreadandmakka [he/him]
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      10 months ago

      Yeah true, I’d probably technically be a Twitter user even though I never use the site. I do still have an account over there to look at something every now and then. I don’t interact with anyone though