85 % still in the dumpster fire?? How?
this post was submitted on 28 Oct 2023
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I used to use it every day, have deleted the app off my phone, and haven't posted or interacted since a few weeks after the Musk acquisition.. But I've ended up clicking several links to tweets in the last 6 months. I wouldn't say I'm "on" it anymore, but I'm probably counted as an MAU most months, and I suspect there are a lot like me. If I'm right, those numbers are a fragile house of cards barely propped up by the network effect.
Monthly is a very generous statistic to use. A lot of people log in every few weeks out of curiosity. Daily active is down substantially.
Citation?
It's still been a great resource for following the Russian invasion of Ukraine, but that seems to be changing recently with some high profile accounts giving up and shutting down.
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This is the biggest reason to leave X. I still get connected when someone related with this kind of thing post something regularly. Did you know how can I block apps X in playstore.
I asked my friend this, since he makes fun of Twitter despite being on there. His response was "I need to be on there to sell my books. Plus there are funny memes." When I mentioned Mastodon, he seemed vaguely interested but not enough to do anything about it.
I still remember that during the whole acquisition phase that there Musk simps were like, "Musk is such a business genius" "he'll fix the bot problem" "he knows how to make money on Twitter" and saying how Twitter should implement his hair brained ideas.
Shingles doesn’t care!