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[–] 105 points 2 years ago (6 children)

It went down hill fast. The amount of right-wing propaganda skyrocketed ... weird

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  • [–] 82 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    When I logged in about six weeks after the ownership change my feed included Elon Musk, Andrew Tate and 2-3 other right wing influencers. I follow none of these people, I have zero interest in what they have to say and I find them reprehensible. I deleted my account and haven't used the platform since.

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  • [–] 34 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I stopped in today after months because my friend is launching a game and I wanted to give them a like and a comment. When I left Twitter my feed was just nerd shit and makers.

    When I logged in today it was several right wing advertisements at the top. When I went to search it was more Trump shit. I just wanted to support my indie friend. That's it for me.

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    [–] 96 points 2 years ago (2 children)
  • [–] 96 points 2 years ago* (3 children)

    ARTISTS, JOURNALISTS, POLITICIANS, LEAVE TWITTER NOW, YOU IDIOTS

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    TAYLOR SWIFT WE NEED YOU! WHERE ARE YOU? DON'T LEAVE US WE NEED HELP!

    This is obviously tounge in check but it feels closer to real than it should be.

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    [–] 85 points 2 years ago (13 children)

    Anyone still on Twitter now is actively part of the problem

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    [–] 73 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I almost want to have used x, so I could quit using it and improve this statistic.

    But I never did

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  • [–] 14 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Just sign up for bluesky and mastodon then. Become a statistic on that side.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    That's not how it works. They already didn't use Twitter because it's not useful to them, why would they use a similar service now?

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  • [+] 66 points 2 years ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (6 children)
  • [–] 28 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    X's most recent report, covering February to July 2024, showed that its user base in the EU fell once more to 105.9 million.

    And these are datapoints they release themselves, 3rd party data points hint at bigger losses.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago

    You only need to hop on for 30s or so to realize why people wouldn't feel inclined to spend time there unless it to quickly bathe one's self in fascism and misinformation.

    Sort of what America will feel like if Elon gets his scummy hands on political power.

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    True, but we live in an economy that only rewards growth...

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)

    It's even worse in social media, because most users that sign up stop using it at some point.

    So the product can die pretty quick if they don't generate new users, especially when they alienate old ones.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    Indeed. Active users (say, used within the past month) is a much better metric.

    I often wonder about this for many (especially older) YouTube channels - your channel is 15 years old, how many of your 500k subscribers actually still watch or even have active accounts?

    I wonder what subscriber growth rate a typical YouTube channel needs just in order to maintain a consistent level of watchers?

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    [–] 57 points 2 years ago

    September 25, 2024

    Oof, that explains why I had a feeling that I read it before

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  • [–] 50 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Who cares about users when Nazi ceo is high on Russian bot army

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  • [–] 31 points 2 years ago (1 child)
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    [–] 27 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    He's burning it to the ground to try to get Trump elected.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I'm hoping he can burn both to the ground

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    There's been some reporting that Musk's Super PAC has been paying its workers so well that it's poached a bunch of the volunteers from the official campaign, and is so poorly run/audited that a lot of the workers are entering false data into the canvassing reports to qualify for bonuses. If that turns out to be true, then it will have been the case that Musk is burning his own money while hurting the Trump campaign.

    I'm not ready to call the race, but stories like this at least reassure me that for Republicans, they're not sending their best.

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  • [–] 18 points 2 years ago

    Great. Why are people still linking to x?

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  • [–] 16 points 2 years ago

    oh no!

    anyway,

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  • [–] 13 points 2 years ago

    Concerning.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    They’re still banning or driving away anyone outside of Musk’s echo chamber.

    The vast majority of users are not big time contributors to the site’s quality content. But the content creators had the biggest targets on their back for retaliation. After so many bans over such a long period, there’s just less and less people to post quality content for the majority to consume.

    Cracking down on narrative control doesn’t force the public to see things your way. It just drives them to other, more relevant platforms. Not sure how many times we need to go through this cycle for them to understand how futile this is.

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