ARTISTS, JOURNALISTS, POLITICIANS, LEAVE TWITTER NOW, YOU IDIOTS
You’ll find that these professions have a vested interest in maintaining network effects, and as such will view Mast/Blue as threats to their networking infrastructure. They don’t want to dilute the importance of the platform their patronage systems rely on (let alone destroy it) - in fact its centrality is why they leverage it to advance their careers. Artists I can see understanding platform agnosticism to some extent, but for the other two groups, it’s simply not in their DNA. The gatekeeping is a feature for them.
‘The medium is the message’ as a Canadian theorist once said.
Any day now, Elon Musk’s X, formerly Twitter, will go down in flames. This will prove once and for all that Elon Musk is worthy of derision!
oh no!
anyway,
I almost want to have used x, so I could quit using it and improve this statistic.
But I never did
I never used twitter but I deleted my account right after muskrat bought it.
Just sign up for bluesky and mastodon then. Become a statistic on that side.
Im on Mastodon. Rarely use it because I’m no fan of the format (same reason I never got into Twitter). I do jump on and follow causes that I support that switch to it.
In X’s EU user base report consisting of data from February to July 2023, Musk’s social media platform had 112.2 million monthly active users in the EU. In the following six month period from August 2023 to January 2024, that number dropped to 111.4 million users.
That’s a minuscule drop % wise
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.
You are a MAU if you use the platform once a month by opening the app by mistake, and also if you doom scroll for 10 hours a day.
You continue to be one if you go from one to the other. Musk has been cherry picking stats before, so what they release will be the nicest numbers they can find.
Well, Elmo thought it was going to exceed 1 billion after 12-18 months.
It went down hill fast. The amount of right-wing propaganda skyrocketed … weird
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.
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.
I’ve just had to look out a morbid curiosity and yeah it’s all Trump. I am being encouraged to vote for Donald Trump. This is a man who is to anathema pretty much all of my beliefs, of course I’m not going to vote for him he seriously wants to be a dictator.
Also, I’m not American so I can’t vote for him anyway.
I wonder if the right-wing content actually has increased, or if it’s just the ratio of it compared to left-wing content as much of the left has seemingly abandoned the platform.
My feed was almost entirely non-political to begin with, and personally, I’ve hardly noticed any difference, though the little politics that do get thru tend to indeed lean right.
Maybe. I only use it to troll them now, so maybe I stepped on my own foot.
I post gay porn. The number or right-wing rednecks that follow me with their public profiles is… confusing.
Exactly as intended.
X-actly as intended.
FTFY
Anyone still on Twitter now is actively part of the problem
Uh, woah there. Why the extremeist view? I’m on there pretty actively for industry chatter. What’s the problem I’m a part of?
Yeah some niche communities that have nothing to do with extremists or politics at all are only on Twitter/X unfortunately. For example, I am into domain name investing and all my domainer friends gather on X to discuss our latest acquisitions and sales. I’ve tried to get people to move to Mastodon, but it’s difficult.
Yeah same in defi software engineering. All of crypto is on Twitter and calls it “ct” aka “crypto twitter”.
FYI, I’m referring to engineering, not shitcoin scam crap.
If I don’t keep up with stuff there, there’s no other places to follow the buzz.
What’s the problem?
The right-wing extremism and misinformation if you were actually wondering
Right, but I don’t see how simply being on the platform makes one part of the problem.
You’re giving them money and engagement with which to continue. Having your eyes on that content and then returning the next day to see more is explicit approval of that content. And having those ads served to you makes Elon money which he then uses to serve more ads to everyone.
Essentially, visiting X is paying Elon real dollars directly and telling him thank you for the propaganda, may I please have another
Adblocker works on twitter too though, and I don’t really mind Elon profiting from my use of Twitter anyway. People should be compensated for running social media platforms like twitter.
Exactly. Don’t use it, let others live.
What? Using twitter causes people to die now?
Don’t use it (if you don’t wanna). Let others live (let others use it if they want to).
Ah, I see. Live and let live.
Great. Why are people still linking to x?
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.
Do you have evidence of this mass banning wave you’re referring to?
Threads is better 😁
X sucks, but Threads is even worse. 99% of everything I have ever seen on Threads is pure distilled engagement bait, and half the time expanding replies gets stuck loading. I wish I were exaggerating, but I’m not.
99% of everything I have ever seen on Threads is pure distilled engagement bait,
That sounds exactly like XTwitter…
It’s even worse on Threads, believe it or not.
I’ll have to take your word for that.
I have no interest in using either platform.
Right there with you on that
