jacktherippah,

Boy do I wish the same thing would happen to Meta.

aeternum,

not only that, but i sure do hope mark fuckerberg goes broke in the process.

Buffalox,

According to a report published by popular research companies,

Yeah I smell bullshit. I suspect it’s going pretty badly for the thing formerly known as Twitter, but this article doesn’t show anything, but merely makes a bunch of claims. There is no documented data, and no sources stated.

111,
Buffalox, (edited )

Thanks way better article.

the app’s downloads fell by almost 30% compared with the preceding two months,

Very different from losing 30% of users the OP headline claims.

BeautifulMind,
@BeautifulMind@lemmy.world avatar

Y’know, I had a love/hate relationship to twitter in the before-elon times.

On the one hand, it was a strange, toxic brew of hellish nonsense and porn On the other hand, there was a critical mass of engaged experts on lots of subjects, weighing in on current events in near-real-time.

It was like having the history faculty of several colleges on hand when historical questions came up, but in order to get their takes on anything you’d have to wade through trolls and bots and fascist sycophants to get there.

I’m a sucker for learning things and I’ll put up with a lot for the pleasure of feeding my brain but by the time Elon took the reigns the signal:noise ratios had gone too far negative to be worth it.

SnowdenHeroOfOurTime,

How the fuck is this number not higher?

nudnyekscentryk,
@nudnyekscentryk@szmer.info avatar

My exact though at first. Then I remembered probably half of all Xitter accounts are ghost anyway. Which makes 30% overall decrease equivalent to 60% decrease within active users.

Buffalox,

You have already applied as much reason as the entire article, and also given as much hard data and sources. In fact, reading your comment is probably worth more than the article.

PS

And NO this is NOT sarcasm!

nudnyekscentryk,
@nudnyekscentryk@szmer.info avatar

btw xitter is pronounced shitter

Dremor,
@Dremor@lemmy.world avatar

Inertia. Give it more time.

Duamerthrax,

Also bots. Bots don’t have ethics or intolerance, so the people running them have no reason to stop.

Robdor,

How the fuck is this technology?

Buffalox,

I agree completely that it shouldn’t be, but Twitter and Facebook/Meta are considered tech companies.

Yes Meta has some tech today, but they were considered a tech company from the beginning, merely for being on the Internet!!!

IMO That’s like considering a baker a tech company, because they have a cash register with buttons. But that’s the world we live in.

Declamatie,

Rest of the site is probably bots

Skkorm,

Yeah I’ve stopped using Xwitter entirely. Musk is an idiot capitalist who ruins everything he touches.

Ilgaz,

(citation needed) Seriously there are zero sources, numbers and article ends with a typical interaction bait. As a Turkish person who knows the Turkish shiftdelete I was almost happy that they have an English version for global market but not this tabloid like junk.

111,
Ilgaz,

Downloads doesn’t mean usage. I really hope it happens one day but it isn’t currently the case. We need governments, politicians and media to wake up.

kSPvhmTOlwvMd7Y7E,

That’s 30% less downloads, not 30% less traffic . I am not sure how that translates to current users.

jarfil,

If it counts updates, that would mean 30% fewer people have the app installed.

bfaliszek,

Or X don’t pushed any new update in last month 😉

scottywh,

It’s barely been 6 weeks since the change from Twitter to X was announced… I don’t know for certain but I suspect there to have been at least one update in the last month.

UFO64,

Give the rapid churn in their code base these days, I’m gonna press X to doubt that.

Saneless,

Good question…

There’s always some background noise in installs. People get new devices constantly and they’d usually download it again. Those are fewer

Then there’s usually some consistent downloads from new users. Those are probably down

Traffic being down is a good measure and that’s dropping too

NoiseColor,

I tried to use it to follow people in crypto but even many of those who stayed are now retweeting right wing conspiracy theories and anti science articles. Twitter is a disgusting hole of hate.

BreakDecks,

Wow, who would have thought that crypto people, the dumbest people on the entire Internet, would end up posting rw conspiracies.

locuester,

Hey! I represent that remark!

NoiseColor,

Wow, who would have thought the mention of crypto would trigger some random moron to embarrass himself with some butthurt statement.

I didn’t. I thought such people are not on lemmy yet. I was sadly wrong.

sab,

Funny when the 1 month old account remarks that to the 9 month old account.

Hate to break it to you bub: the only places where the majority of people do not think cryptocurrencies are a scam, are crypto hangouts, and places where they haven’t heard about cryptos at all.

NoiseColor,

Is it funny? Because generally for that to be funny, the account age would have to be linked somehow to credibility. I’m sure you are not stating that,because that would be incredibly stupid.

Please “brake it to me” more. Explain how everyone thinks that. Maybe some study? Some survey? Explain it to me and then explain why I hell would I care? You have no idea how dumb you seem right now. Like some flat earth dumbass explaining how wrong everybody else is.

sab,

I apologise if I have offended you or made you doubt your worldview.

dx1,

Great content guys, I learned a lot. (writes in notebook: “crypto…is…bad”)

robbotlove,

mention of crypto would trigger some random moron to embarrass himself

the self fulfilling prophecy.

asunaspersonalasst,

And they keep on trying to inflate the userbase with bot accounts whose bios are weird and mostly contain suspicious links, amd use those same bots to randomly like anyone’s new posts tweets.

KevonLooney,

I think they’re pronounced “skeets” now (xeets)

beebarfbadger,

“Exeet”

Rawdogg,

Skeet skeet motherfucka

SqueezeMeMacaroni,

I haven’t deleted my account but it’s been dormant for a while. I guess at some point it’ll get deleted if I don’t touch it, which… fine, I guess.

ViewSonik,

That is becauae it is a far-right, nazi website. Boycott all companies that use that site or advertise on it

FlyingSquid,
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

I don’t think I need to buy gold or boner pills though.

chickenfish,

my usage tanked a lot when he took over, but it’s more or less done for good when tweetdeck went premium. I check in on one account now, and occasionally still bitch at customer service accounts. Other than that, Im at mastodon and bluesky.

Engywuck,

Same. I have deleted all my tweets/likes/follows and keep the account just as a way to reach customer service accounts (which usually work much better on Twitter/X than by phone/email).

FiftyShadesOfLatte,

I would like to formally invite everyone to Mastodon.

Ensign_Crab,

Everyone? Like, even the nazis? Because there seem to be an awful lot of them on xitter.

Plopp,

Sure, they can be on their defederated lil nazi instance.

Weirdfish,

Like that server in Mythic Quest, gather them in one place, unplug, and let them scream into the void.

halfempty,
halfempty avatar

Xwitter is a Nazi hate cesspool. I deleted my account not long after Musk took over. I would be delighted to see it fail, and Musk brought down a few notches.

m13,

I’d also like to see him brought down a few notches… like down to the bottom of the Mariana Trench in a leaky submarine.

phoneymouse,

Made of carbon fiber

wazoobonkerbrain,

Catastrophic implosion

elskertesla,

I use X pretty much daily and I have no idea where you are getting this from. Haven’t seen a single nazi post.

Fisk400,

I feel like your username suggests a bias on the subject.

elskertesla,

Tesla drivers are now Nazis?

Fisk400,

Yes, that is the reasonable and intelligent interpretation of what I said.

elskertesla,

Thank you, that is such a reasonable and intelligent response.

Gestrid,

Honestly, same. I’ve seen a severe decline in post quality, but no nazi posts.

remotelove,

I saw that shit all the time before I deleted my account. If you have seen a decline in quality since I deleted my account after Muskrat took over, that place must be absolutely fucked these days.

fosforus,

Could it be that some people react more to such posts which makes The Algorithm decide that they like absolutely need to see more of such content?

sab,

Very likely, yes. I guess it also helps to have quite a broad definition of what being a nazi means.

Ydna,

Your feed is much cleaner than the ones I see, that’s for sure. I usually attribute it to being a moderate, since I see fringe nonsense on either end.

systemglitch,

Is he doing this on purpose? He has to be right? What’s the end goal? Was his only goal to destroy Twitter? It’s fascinating

CileTheSane,
@CileTheSane@lemmy.ca avatar

Never attribute to malice what can be explained by incompetence.

bradv,

Does that axiom really apply to billionaires?

vzq,

Aside from the fact that it’s a fake dichotomy, yes. He is obviously very incompetent.

CileTheSane,
@CileTheSane@lemmy.ca avatar

I don’t see what someone inheriting wealth has to do with their competence.

gareins,

Why not?

MysticKetchup,

Well he only ended up buying Twitter because he was forced to when he tried to back out after signing a contract. If he’s stupid enough to do that he’s stupid enough to ruin the platform through sheer incompetence. That being said, killing Twitter basically helps out him/his financers so I’d suspect at least some of it is on purpose.

TwoGems,
@TwoGems@lemmy.world avatar

gizmodo.com/twitter-saudi-arabia-x-jack-dorsey-ar…

Probably bought it to kill some democracies (USA included) since people seem easy to brainwash

newsweek.com/elon-musks-twitter-takeover-faces-ba…

nephs,

Makes one question what should money be allowed to buy, doesn’t it?

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