I had a Twitter list "standard stuff" where I listed the core accounts I definitely wanted to hear about. This fav list grew over the years and had 120 users in total. These were active users that in the golden era posted every day. These were the ones I wanted to read whenever possible.
I wanted to see what's the status today so I went through every account and here's the result. By "inactive" I mean users who haven't posted anything in two months or more.
20% have completely deleted their account (the list now has 95 users)
36% still post frequently
64% are inactive or quit using Twitter
30% are inactive without any reason given
23% of those who still post on X also have active Mastodon, Bluesky or Threads accounts
Haben soziale Medien tatsächlich ihre Berechtigung verspielt? So düster wie @MrClicko sehe ich deren Zukunft zwar nicht, aber ein Wandel findet definitiv statt. Ich bin gespannt, wie und wo die Reise im 2024 weiter geht. #riptwitter#twittermigration#socialmedia#kommunikation
In diesem Sinne, frohe Festtage und einen guten Rutsch ins neue Jahr! 🎄✨
If you're curious about the set of dog-tags that Elon Musk is wearing while he's smirking and telling people "Go fuck yourself", they're from the IDF.
Haven't seen anyone else report on it yet, but Elon Musk, Twitter's Nazi-meme-posting owner, is wearing dog-tags from the Israel Defence Forces. He's making a visible dog-whistle to show support of Israel's genocide in Palestine.
I remember last year when the #RIPTwitter hashtag was trending on Twitter and about 1% of my mutuals actually believed in Twitter's downfall. I'm sure that percentage has gone up like to 90% by now.
I guess no more private groups on Twitter anymore. I wonder, when will Mastodon wil implement actual federated groups, which can provide the Circle-like feature, but on the Fediverse. :neocat_think:
I hold no sympathy to the banks who helped Elon buy Twitter, they are on the hook for a pretty sizable loss because the huge drop in value of Twitter, now called X.They will surely lose all their money if Twitter actually goes down, which there is a huge possibility it will.
This is basically a case study not how to run a company. Still, I have a feeling it might be the end of social platforms as interest rates continue to go up or stay high with the end of loose central bank monetary policy. With Pebble shutting down, it will be a matter of time until others, including Bluesky meet the same fate as they have to turn a profit. Social media platforms are simply not profitable.
This is why I think the Fediverse will survive while the big platforms including Bluesky will collapse as it does not use ActivityPub, which more software is implementing as seen with WordPress.
Getting onto Mastodon or Misskey (and all those forks) is the best course of action. All roads lead to the Fediverse along with the return of things like websites, blogs, and Internet forums,
The numbers are in, and it’s not looking good as Twitter lost 13% of it’s active users after a year Elon bought Twitter. I wonder how the numbers will fare once he starts pay walling Twitter.
This doesn’t bode well in the long term survival of Twitter/X. Most of the biggest advertisers aren’t advertising on Twitter any more, maybe because of all the hate speech, extremism, and misinformation perhaps.
This week, it’s going to be 1 year since Elon bought Twitter. People thought Twitter now called X will collapse
This seems more like a slow and sinking ship. The question is, how much longer until Twitter actually collapses for good.
Not to mention, I created this Mastodon server a day after Elon bought Twitter. It shows how much confidence I had in Elon managing Twitter, which is
very low. I happened to be correct. :sylveonsmug:
Spannend! Elon #Musk plant möglicherweise, #X in der EU zu deaktivieren. Der #EU Digital Services Act, mit dem Musk Probleme hat, ist der angebliche Grund für diese Überlegung.
It looks like Elon might pull the plug on Twitter at least in the EU. It looks like he doesn't want to deal with the DSA, especially in regards to misinformation.
Time to prepare for another possible wave of new users, soon.
Another instance of not thinking things through, but not surprising since this new ad format reeks despiration.
The new format could violate FTC rules for misleading users.
Under Section 5(a) of the US Federal Trade Commission Act, companies are banned from using deceptive ad practices, meaning consumers must know that ads are, well, ads. For social platforms, this means that any native advertising, or advertising designed to look like content on the platform, needs to be clearly labeled.
With no indicator stating that it is an ad and still looking like a normal tweet, this can be a problem.
EU may as well just block the entirety of Twitter/X instead of fining them. It’s not like they are going to pay the fine and comply by removing the misinformation.
Either way, gloves are off, hopefully the EU does the right thing and block Twitter since there will most likely be violations to the DSA.
Also, Meta and TikTok are in the crosshairs for the same misinformation as well.
Feedback is extremely welcome. This is a loving document, it can only be honed and get better with loving input from other users. What are your best tips for #creators?