Usage Of Elon Musk’s X Dropped 30% In The Last Year, Study Suggests (www.forbes.com)
from Hubi@feddit.de to technology@lemmy.world on 09 Mar 2024 21:18
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lettruthout@lemmy.world on 09 Mar 2024 21:21 next collapse

I’m back to calling it Twitter. (Not that I’m ever on it though.)

NocturnalEngineer@lemmy.world on 09 Mar 2024 21:41 next collapse

It’s such a stupid name! Everytime it’s mentioned, it has to be prepend or suffixed with something so people actually understand the “X” context.

And more importantly - If you visit x.com, it redirects to twitter.com! So what’s the fucking point of the rebrand?

homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world on 09 Mar 2024 21:52 collapse

Genius, i say! The man’s an absolute genius!

Obviously. Some people say trump should run a social media platform. More and more.

tsonfeir@lemm.ee on 09 Mar 2024 21:42 next collapse

Xwitter (zwitter)

grte@lemmy.ca on 09 Mar 2024 21:48 next collapse

Xchan

frunch@lemmy.world on 09 Mar 2024 23:05 collapse

Szechuan

Kraven_the_Hunter@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 09 Mar 2024 22:20 collapse

To the Mayan people X makes a ‘sh’ sound. That’s the way I pronounce it. Now and forever.

Xitter, I mean Shitter. I still pronounce the letter X normally.

lvxferre@mander.xyz on 10 Mar 2024 04:56 collapse

In Portuguese, too. And most other languages from Iberia*. And “x” is typically so rare in other orthographies that, for Portuguese speakers, rendering “x” as /ʃ/ (the “sh” sound) is almost automatic, so the first time that I saw “Xitter” I couldn’t stop laughing.

*with one exception: modern Spanish. And by “modern” I mean past the 17th century, because before that it was /ʃ/ in Spanish too. That’s where the Maya languages got that spelling convention from.

(Sorry for the off-topic.)

isthereanydeal@discuss.tchncs.de on 11 Mar 2024 13:28 collapse

This was almost entirely on topic

deegeese@sopuli.xyz on 09 Mar 2024 22:02 next collapse

Xitter, but the X makes a ‘sh’ sound.

[deleted] on 09 Mar 2024 22:09 next collapse

.

ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 09 Mar 2024 22:18 next collapse

I call it the x social media site

FlyingSquid@lemmy.world on 09 Mar 2024 22:24 next collapse

Until he stops allowing deadnaming on his site, I’m going to deadname his site.

WaxiestSteam69@lemmy.world on 10 Mar 2024 00:09 collapse

It’s only fair.

seaQueue@lemmy.world on 09 Mar 2024 22:32 next collapse

I haven’t stopped calling it twatter

lemmyingly@lemm.ee on 10 Mar 2024 01:46 collapse

What do people call a tweet in the X rebranding?

recreationalplacebos@midwest.social on 10 Mar 2024 02:31 next collapse

Xcrement

BigMikeInAustin@lemmy.world on 10 Mar 2024 03:45 collapse

I’ve seen “xeet” from people outside of Twitter. Not sure what an X person would say. It’s pronounced “shit” or “sheet”.

lemmyingly@lemm.ee on 10 Mar 2024 09:53 collapse

😂

Minotaur@lemm.ee on 09 Mar 2024 21:32 next collapse

You’re telling me the company that once had ads for T-Mobile and Volkswagen and now almost exclusively has ads where random bots with NFT photos advertise ChatGPT ‘services’ isn’t doing well financially??

FaceDeer@fedia.io on 10 Mar 2024 00:05 collapse

It's important to note that "doing well financially" isn't just revenue and user count, it's also expenditures. If Twitter has managed to cut costs by more than whatever its income has dropped by then that could well be a good outcome for it, I've heard it wasn't profitable when Musk took it over.

It's kind of ironic how big companies are frequently criticized for fixating on "endless growth" and "line goes up", and then when a company or organization sheds that it also looks bad.

circuscritic@lemmy.ca on 10 Mar 2024 02:05 next collapse

There’s so much wrong with your understanding here…so I’ll just point out that you’re talking about Twitter as if it’s still a public company, it’s not.

Also, Twitter was never profitable, and it was likely never going to be profitable. But there’s a big difference between their losses and projections before Musk, and after.

FaceDeer@fedia.io on 10 Mar 2024 05:57 collapse

But there's a big difference between their losses and projections before Musk, and after.

Which are?

otp@sh.itjust.works on 10 Mar 2024 03:29 next collapse

If “lines goes up” meant things get better for the customers, the employees, and the world in general, then people would be cheering it on. Usually it means it gets worse for at LEAST one of the three, and sometimes all 3.

Here, “line goes down” is following Twitter getting worse for the customers, the users, the employees, and the world in general. So people will cheer as it crashes.

Greg@lemmy.ca on 10 Mar 2024 17:06 next collapse

I thought Twitter’s infrastructure was going to collapse within weeks after Musk made all those cuts and changes. I was obviously wrong because Twitter’s infrastructure didn’t collapse. I’m not speaking to the user experience on Twitter but from a purely infrastructure perspective, Musk was right and I was wrong.

FaceDeer@fedia.io on 10 Mar 2024 17:16 collapse

Uh-oh, you said something positive about Musk. I only said "maybe he's not as bad as it seems" and look where that got me.

Greg@lemmy.ca on 10 Mar 2024 17:35 collapse

Lol exactly, how dare you have a nuanced opinion!

dragontamer@lemmy.world on 10 Mar 2024 19:39 collapse

Twitter has 1.3 Billion / in interest payments alone as it took on $13,000,000,000 in debt for the honor of being bought out by Elon Musk.

The owners of that debt have been quaking in their boots all last year. As Bankruptcy proceedings would make them the new owner of Twitter.

Note that Twitter made $5 Billion revenue on its best year, and that’s likely halfed or worse.

EDIT: $5 Billion revenue on its best year. Far less today and you still have all the OTHER costs going on. I’m sure Elon will prop up Twitter with Tesla ads or something but Twitter cannot stand by itself anymore.

gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works on 09 Mar 2024 21:36 next collapse

How much did human usage drop? Because there are a shitload more bots on twitter nowadays than there were in the years before he took over.

tsonfeir@lemm.ee on 09 Mar 2024 21:45 next collapse

Any time something gets too big it gets bots. Lemmy will be the same. We will see instances getting defederated who cannot manage the spam.

Fuck Elon though

GreatDong3000@lemm.ee on 09 Mar 2024 22:32 next collapse

If people set up their own instances with 100% LLM bots how would we even know they are bots to defederate? The AIs are too realistic. Only giveaway would be the ones dumb enough to make accounts post/comment 24/7 with seconds between each comment.

tsonfeir@lemm.ee on 09 Mar 2024 23:16 next collapse

I imagine the content would be bad, which is the whole reason an instance would become defederated.

nossaquesapao@lemmy.eco.br on 10 Mar 2024 01:13 collapse

Right now, it’s still possible to realize texts are written by llms, due to style and mistakes, but it can become a serious problem in the near future, and we are kind of ignoring it, because no one is preparing in any way.

GreatDong3000@lemm.ee on 10 Mar 2024 01:49 collapse

It will take someone really smart to figure this out without requiring some form of identity confirmation (which would be horrible imo), like using credit cards or (even worse) government digital IDs (I live in a country where we have a gov ID app which can be used to sign documents and confirm ID online but if I had to use it on Lemmy or any other social media I’d just fuck off).

psmgx@lemmy.world on 10 Mar 2024 04:56 collapse

Any time something gets too big it gets bots

Dead internet theory, summed up in a sentence

muelltonne@feddit.de on 09 Mar 2024 22:01 next collapse

This should be human usage - the user survey was done by phone.

gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works on 09 Mar 2024 22:10 next collapse

Ah, ok, 27% -> 19%, an 8% YoY drop, and the numbers were obtained using identical methodologies across multiple years. Yeah, I agree, seems to check out.

Still, there are definitely a shitload more bots than there were before.

TexasDrunk@lemmy.world on 10 Mar 2024 01:25 collapse

Are there more bots or does it just seem that way because there are fewer people? I don’t ask to be snarky, I’m legitimately curious what the numbers were and are.

muelltonne@feddit.de on 10 Mar 2024 09:07 collapse

X seems to have stopped fighting against bots. So there are less people, more bots and those bots won’t be banned as quickly as before.

pdxfed@lemmy.world on 10 Mar 2024 00:11 collapse
Mog_fanatic@lemmy.world on 09 Mar 2024 23:26 next collapse

Wasn’t like one of his focuses going to be getting rid of bots? Did they just not do anything and the bots just invaded or did the bots just get better?

Jesusaurus@lemmy.world on 09 Mar 2024 23:34 next collapse

He got rid of like 80% of the staff. I doubt he has a functional team who can even tackle the problem.

WaxiestSteam69@lemmy.world on 10 Mar 2024 00:09 collapse

I think the focus on bots was primarily used in an attempt to back out of the deal. It was never an issue, especially if it inflated his ego by pumping up his account.

Hypx@fedia.io on 10 Mar 2024 04:52 collapse

I suspect even more than 30%, and by a lot. Nearly all of the communities that once thrived seem to be dead. It feels very empty.

homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world on 09 Mar 2024 21:53 next collapse

Who the fuck is still on that shitpile? Dudes. Stahp.

warm@kbin.earth on 10 Mar 2024 02:57 collapse

porn?

EdibleFriend@lemmy.world on 09 Mar 2024 22:19 next collapse

How could the jews do this to me :(

-Musk

underisk@lemmy.ml on 09 Mar 2024 22:22 next collapse

Concerning

Buffalox@lemmy.world on 09 Mar 2024 22:26 next collapse

I would find it more plausible that only 30% remains.

Mereo@lemmy.ca on 09 Mar 2024 22:28 next collapse

Ever since Musk’s control of the company, Twitter (I refused to call it X) showed me multiple hate and racists posts. Basically, Twitter is showing me garbage. I now use Mastadon instead.

WaxiestSteam69@lemmy.world on 10 Mar 2024 00:07 next collapse

I was never active in terms of posting but I followed several news outlets, local government agencies, and a few friends. Shortly after Musk took over I saw nothing but right wing nutjobs and a lot of posts from Musk. I tried unfollowing but nothing worked so I quit logging in. I need to cancel my account but haven’t taken the time.

otp@sh.itjust.works on 10 Mar 2024 03:26 collapse

Yeah, I had a Twitter account but rarely used it. Shortly after Musk took over, his account was in recommendations and his tweets were in my feed, even though I’d NEVER seen them before.

I blocked him.

He remained at the top of my recommendations.

I think I even occasionally saw his posts when they were retweeted or something by someone I didn’t even follow, because the retweet was trending, I guess?

That’s when I deleted my account.

WaxiestSteam69@lemmy.world on 10 Mar 2024 04:48 collapse

It’s a shame because Twitter is a perfect platform for the kind of one-way communications required by a news agency or local government agency. Maybe Mastodon or Bluesky will fill that void.

deathbird@mander.xyz on 10 Mar 2024 06:17 collapse

I would prefer RSS.

WaxiestSteam69@lemmy.world on 10 Mar 2024 16:12 collapse

So would I but good luck getting your average local sheriff or office of emergency preparedness to use RSS. Most of their “IT” staff is the deputy who is “good with computers” meaning they can open a PDF file.

mesamunefire@lemmy.world on 10 Mar 2024 00:57 next collapse

Mastodon has been great.

ABCDE@lemmy.world on 10 Mar 2024 01:06 collapse

Are there enough using it?

victoitor@lemmy.eco.br on 10 Mar 2024 02:00 collapse

Yes!

ABCDE@lemmy.world on 10 Mar 2024 01:06 collapse

Facebook does that for me too, alongside flat earthers, anti EV crap and the occasional funny picture. It’s depressing.

Default_Defect@midwest.social on 10 Mar 2024 02:37 collapse

Oh yeah, the flat earthers, the pictures with lens flare on it being proof of “planet X” and other insanity? The best comedy I’ve ever seen.

seaQueue@lemmy.world on 09 Mar 2024 22:32 next collapse

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grue@lemmy.world on 09 Mar 2024 22:46 next collapse

What the fuck is the other 70%'s problem?

AstridWipenaugh@lemmy.world on 09 Mar 2024 23:31 next collapse

They’re bots

FenrirIII@lemmy.world on 09 Mar 2024 23:51 collapse

Or right-wing fascists

neidu2@feddit.nl on 10 Mar 2024 00:05 next collapse

Or both

weeeeum@lemmy.world on 10 Mar 2024 02:27 collapse

And definitely porn addicts

unreasonabro@lemmy.world on 10 Mar 2024 03:09 collapse

yeah. no that’s whistleblowers. you ever notice how every major whistleblower gets hit with a child porn charge? It’s like a label that reads “the government doesn’t think you should talk about this guy”. Nothing more than character assassination by our government. Ridiculous to suggest that someone used to being that furtive about something so shameful would also just want the world to know the truth.

those two things don’t fit together, and yet it keeps happening. weird

NikkiDimes@lemmy.world on 10 Mar 2024 00:08 collapse

Or people with morbid curiousity like me who hop on to see the dumpster fire occasionally. Can’t say I recommend it.

nexussapphire@lemm.ee on 10 Mar 2024 01:09 collapse

Damn, I thought it was a requirement to shit post on Twitter while you’re shitty code compiles. How am I supposed to become a real programmer now? I guess I still got mastodon.

NOT_RICK@lemmy.world on 10 Mar 2024 01:12 next collapse

I have a lot of friends that won’t quit because of sports updates and all the shitposts

Dagnet@lemmy.world on 10 Mar 2024 01:33 next collapse

Sunken cost fallacy

hansl@lemmy.world on 10 Mar 2024 02:20 next collapse

This is in addition to the first year of losses, which are likely higher.

linearchaos@lemmy.world on 10 Mar 2024 02:22 next collapse

He kept the 70% he wanted, it’ll be a propaganda engine and communications platform for the right wing.

selokichtli@lemmy.ml on 10 Mar 2024 04:10 collapse

Whatever wing willing to pay, honestly.

EDIT: I rarely see the voting system of lemmy for a reason. I find it cute, this reaction to the mere comparison between so-called “wings” in the American political system. Both, republicans and democrats, are two sides of the same coin.

linearchaos@lemmy.world on 10 Mar 2024 14:55 collapse

Strategic alignment. Getting his taxes cut counts. Of course, could be some deeper conspiracy. I’m not so anto- conspiracy that I don’t think people aren’t making grand plans to install trump.

Emmy@lemmy.nz on 10 Mar 2024 03:31 next collapse

I’ll bet it’s more than 30% left but bots backfilled the space.

TheBat@lemmy.world on 10 Mar 2024 04:24 next collapse

My problem is that I never had a Twitter account to stop using it lmao.

phoneymouse@lemmy.world on 10 Mar 2024 05:45 collapse

There are a lot of quasi-celebrity types with a big following that don’t want to give up their follower base.

Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works on 09 Mar 2024 23:38 next collapse

That sounds like bragging. Why aren’t more people stopping this crap?

PoliticallyIncorrect@lemmy.world on 10 Mar 2024 02:40 next collapse

Good

Empricorn@feddit.nl on 10 Mar 2024 02:45 next collapse

What the fuck’s “x”?

unreasonabro@lemmy.world on 10 Mar 2024 03:04 next collapse

who cares

otp@sh.itjust.works on 10 Mar 2024 03:19 next collapse

He sure has a lot of X’s

Empricorn@feddit.nl on 10 Mar 2024 15:15 collapse

And O’s!

Sorse@discuss.tchncs.de on 10 Mar 2024 04:22 next collapse

An obsolete windowing system for UNIX like operating systems

FiskFisk33@startrek.website on 10 Mar 2024 05:48 collapse

obsolete? say that after trying wayland on an nvidia card.

VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world on 10 Mar 2024 04:48 next collapse

It’s his favorite letter or something. He’d wanted to name something X for a while. The closest he got before was SpaceX. Which I suppose now retroactively means SpaceTwitter.

jakobmn@feddit.dk on 10 Mar 2024 06:37 collapse

There’s also the poor kid that he named ‘X Æ A-12,’

psmgx@lemmy.world on 10 Mar 2024 04:55 next collapse

X is one of his older websites, a financial platform that he created after his first startup was sold. Name comes from “X marks the spot” from old treasure maps, was to be the place for all transactions.

It struggled and didn’t really get off the ground, but was able to merge with another platform called Confinity, run by Peter Thiel. The merged platforms then became PayPal, and made both guys rich as shit. Thiel eventually power played Musk and got him kicked out of the company, arguably for good reason, though Thiel is quite a piece of work, too.

The new X is Musk’s attempt to make twitter more like his old site, and is why he was throwing around things like making it a peer to peer payment site, similar to WeChat / WePay or Venmo. How he plans to make tweets into bank transfers I’ve got no idea, esp. when losing 30 percent of users.

More on this: forbes.com/…/x-announces-peer-to-peer-payment-ser…

filister@lemmy.world on 10 Mar 2024 05:38 collapse

Pretty much he wants to turn X/Twitter as WeChat’s clone for the West.

As WeChat is both a messaging and payment app used by a couple of hundreds of millions of users in China where people can send money, split bills, pay, etc. using the app.

Visa and MasterCard are extremely profitable companies enjoying really high margins and having very little competition. And this is very lucrative business:

66% operating profit margin for Visa and 55% for Mastercard (four-year average). 51% net profit margin for Visa and 45% for Mastercard (four-year average). 50% per annum return on capital employed for Mastercard and 21% per annum for Visa (11-year average).

WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world on 10 Mar 2024 05:43 collapse

A robot created by Dr. Light with the capacity to reason and make decisions on his own, unbound by the laws of robotics. Could also stick to walls.

udon@lemmy.world on 10 Mar 2024 03:35 next collapse

The whole Musk takeover is much less relevant (in the sense of interesting) for people outside the western context. I asked a few friends in Japan why they still use Twitter, but they just don’t care about the platform and ownership as long as they can still interact with their friends there. Curious how the botification will affect that over time, though.

TrickDacy@lemmy.world on 10 Mar 2024 04:37 next collapse

How the fuck is that all?

m13@lemmy.world on 10 Mar 2024 05:39 next collapse

I’m sure a lot of the original population has dropped by a lot more than that, but in numbers they would have been replaced by an influx of fascists and bots.

ThatFembyWho@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 10 Mar 2024 06:55 collapse

I’m taking note of all the prominent individuals and organizations which chose to remain on the fascist platform and thus implicitly support it.

JustZ@lemmy.world on 10 Mar 2024 06:13 collapse

Bots on bots on bots.

dragontamer@lemmy.world on 10 Mar 2024 19:36 collapse

This article is a survey of Americans, not a computerized search.

Unless a number of bots answered the telephone survey, I think the stats here are legit.

Snapz@lemmy.world on 10 Mar 2024 06:36 next collapse

I wrote this right as the first elon buying Twitter mentions were popping up…

Notably, Twitter facilitated communication during the arab spring, where the people organized to stand against and even overthrow several broken and corrupt government regimes throughout the middle east - including some participation in places like Saudi Arabia, for example.

Twitter’s second largest investor after a musk takeover… the kingdom of Saudi Arabia and it’s de facto leader who, among other things, killed and dismembered an American journalist without consequence somewhat recently.

And now Twitter is about to be killed… and dismembered.

the_third@feddit.de on 10 Mar 2024 09:10 collapse

Yep, Saudi Arabia bought that service and the price, giving a man child a toy that it would probably ruin quickly, looked rather attractive.

recapitated@lemmy.world on 10 Mar 2024 06:46 next collapse

I deleted my account and haven’t missed it at all. Then again I was never good at making use of Twitter, it’s too hectic and disorganized for me, and I have the same problem with mastodon.

evatronic@lemm.ee on 10 Mar 2024 08:16 collapse

I’m glad I’m not the only person that doesn’t really understand the whole Thing behind Twitter / Mastodon feed thing.

intensely_human@lemm.ee on 10 Mar 2024 07:10 next collapse

“suggests” is a pretty weak level of conviction

Jaysyn@kbin.social on 10 Mar 2024 02:07 next collapse

Twitter's for #fascists.

Mastengwe@lemm.ee on 10 Mar 2024 09:02 next collapse

Good, but not good enough. It needs to be 0. And if you’re still on that shithole of a propaganda spreading platform- you’re supporting it.

shneancy@lemmy.world on 10 Mar 2024 09:29 next collapse

i heard there’s good porn on there, probably why some decided to stick around

JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz on 10 Mar 2024 15:27 collapse

Quite a few Tumblr refugees still I’d imagine. Shame mastodon and Lemmy weren’t ready yet back then.

Also twitter is still one of the biggest platforms for sharing art in general, if you want the large audience, you kinda have to be there.

A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world on 10 Mar 2024 18:20 collapse

will never be zero accounts

at the end it will just be bots crossposting bots and replying to bots.

Crackhappy@lemmy.world on 10 Mar 2024 12:07 next collapse

How do you measure the percentage of people who never used it and are now saying “Oh hell no, not ever!”?

dangblingus@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 11 Mar 2024 12:43 collapse

By big arms open wide.

Suavevillain@lemmy.world on 10 Mar 2024 13:52 next collapse

I’ve been using Bluesky more. It is better with feeds and a way less toxic general user base.

arc@lemm.ee on 10 Mar 2024 15:43 collapse

Definitely. I think it has just about reached a critical mass users writing content to attract new users and it looks so similar to Twitter there is practically zero friction in moving. I think it’ll really kick off when we see more heavy hitters coming over - big news networks, public figures, governments etc.

I think news orgs in particular should be removing themselves from obnoxious social media platforms (e.g. Twitter) and move to somewhere where the engagement is more genuine and not toxic rants by racists and morons.

arc@lemm.ee on 10 Mar 2024 15:46 next collapse

Doesn’t surprise me. Musk has cultivated and emboldened racists, homophobes, cryptobros, misogynists, and the far right and the platform has turned into a cesspit. Meanwhile scammers & bots run rampant and the blueticks stink up every thread with cretinous remarks and trolling.

I wouldn’t be surprised if a lot of people have just given up with it, or moved to another social media that isn’t so toxic.

Hoticeberg@lemmy.world on 10 Mar 2024 18:24 next collapse

I feel the same way. I’m only ever on to check for updates on certain companies and games I follow. I wish they would adopt anything else.

dangblingus@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 11 Mar 2024 12:43 collapse

It was that way before Musk foolishly bought it.

arc@lemm.ee on 12 Mar 2024 08:16 collapse

Not really. Pre-musk, reporting racism & other abuses was more likely to illicit a response than not. Nowadays it is a was of time to even bother unless it is extremely overt… And all the shitheads with few exceptions who were perma banned got reinstated no matter how awful they were.

And the situation with blueticks is self evident. It used to mean somebody noteworthy - journalists, actors, politicians, authors, scientists etc. Now it’s trolls and narcissists with money to waste on a vanity tick. Popular feeds will have pages of inane comments by these scumbags to scroll through. There are even actual Nazis with blueticks who complain/brag about the ad revenues they receive from engagement. It couldn’t be any more removed than the way it was.

archchan@lemmy.ml on 10 Mar 2024 17:43 next collapse

I miss the OC porn and algorithms but it’s whatever. I like Mastodon

Toneswirly@lemmy.world on 10 Mar 2024 17:44 next collapse

Needing to log in to view someones tweets means now I wont even visit the site when linked. Kinda the number 1 rule of platforms is to make them accessible to those that don’t already use it, so as to convert them later. Musk, and everyone around him letting these decisions run through, are idiots

A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world on 10 Mar 2024 18:19 collapse

ran into this last night.

I hate twitter, but there was something I was trying to see and the only way to get the info was from a twitter post. Couldnt view the goddamn twitter post without creating an account and logging in.

My immediate thought was “This isnt important enough for this bullshit” and immediately gave up.

I’m convinced this login to view shit is to hide the explosion of right wing white supremacy/racism/etc posts and the bots echoing and amplifying it from people before they commit themselves to an account.

ramjambamalam@lemmy.ca on 11 Mar 2024 13:11 collapse

Login to view started before Musk took over, FYI. I distinctly remember avoiding Twitter to spite them in those days.

A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world on 11 Mar 2024 13:14 collapse

Did it? I never had problem grabbing info off it before Musk.

Duamerthrax@lemmy.world on 11 Mar 2024 13:56 collapse

It did. I don’t remember when, but Twitter was getting hard and harder to access without an account before Musk. It might have been one of those Rolling Release things so everyone didn’t notice at once or something.

In the beginning, Twitter even had an RSS feed for accounts you could subscribe to. When it shifted to nagging be for login, I installed a nitter addon and that that’s broken, I haven’t been there since.

HatchetHaro@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 10 Mar 2024 17:46 next collapse

I’m part of the 70%.

I use it exclusively for gay furry porn.

boatsnhos931@lemmy.world on 10 Mar 2024 18:34 next collapse

The way God intended… with tegridy…

the_seven_sins@feddit.de on 10 Mar 2024 19:48 next collapse

The fact that the platform is used by right wing extremists and for gay furry porn is kinda remarkable.

joneskind@lemmy.world on 11 Mar 2024 09:11 collapse

If you think right wing extremists can’t be into gay furry porn…

[deleted] on 12 Mar 2024 07:08 collapse

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spiderman@ani.social on 11 Mar 2024 08:10 next collapse

I thought bluesky was for that.

Laser@feddit.de on 11 Mar 2024 10:48 collapse

Disgusting.

I expected better from a gay furry porn aficionado

user501213@lemmy.world on 10 Mar 2024 18:37 next collapse

good

maculata@aussie.zone on 10 Mar 2024 20:06 next collapse

Oh you mean Twitter?

Yeah, ‘X’ is never gonna happen.

ordellrb@lemmy.world on 11 Mar 2024 08:27 next collapse

Where did those people go. Some Mastodon,Bluesky but the Rest?

UndercoverUlrikHD@programming.dev on 11 Mar 2024 09:27 collapse

It’s not really a zero sum game is it

yojimbo@sopuli.xyz on 11 Mar 2024 12:20 next collapse

Well If you take in account how hard has “The Chief Xit” tried to destroy Twitter and piss off anyone using it, this is actually unexpectadly good result! More Powah to the Man Child 😂 . Also - there is no longer the $1 payment for account creation - I guess bot traffic is better than no traffic 😂.

yojimbo@sopuli.xyz on 11 Mar 2024 12:21 next collapse

Well If you take in account how hard has “The Chief Xit” tried to destroy Twitter and piss off anyone using it, this is actually unexpectadly good result! More Powah to the Man Child 😂 . Also - there is no longer the $1 payment for account creation - I guess bot traffic is better than no traffic 😂.

yamanii@lemmy.world on 11 Mar 2024 12:51 next collapse

It’s a shame that other platforms that are growing for artists is just another monopoly one (bluesky) or defederated from everything and even bans the use of VPN to access it now (misskey.io).

bigMouthCommie@kolektiva.social on 11 Mar 2024 12:57 collapse

pixelfed

KingBoo@lemmy.world on 11 Mar 2024 13:12 collapse

The 2022 and 2023 usage data was gathered through a national telephone survey of about 1,500 people aged 12 and older—further details and methodology for the 2024 usage data will be released on March 28, according to Edison.

What an interesting choice for collection method when you’re assessing a social media website in 2024.