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I'm all for shitting on Xitter, but this is a pretty bad article. It's written like somebody put it through Google Translate a few times, and doesn't cite any sources for any of its claims. Closest I could find was this Business Insider story on a report by Apptopia, which only says that its downloads in various app stores declined 30%, not its overall userbase.

(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.

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

I would like to formally invite everyone to Mastodon.

I’m skeptical of this article, but I know my own usage went to almost 0 because of how awful the bots and trolls are now. Blue checks are prioritized in the comment section and they’re usually awful people or maybe paid trolls or bots, and it makes the app unusable and unpleasant. That’s really the thing that killed it for me.

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

"According to a report published by popular research companies"

I'd like to know to whom "popular research companies" refers, and by what means they're measuring "losing 30% of users".

I just couldn't have seen this coming. /s

Combine it with this:

https://techcrunch.com/2023/09/08/x-formerly-twitter-caught-running-unlabeled-ads-in-users-following-feeds/

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

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.

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.

!upliftingnews@lemmy.world

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

That’s ok, they’ll make up for it by adding 30% more bots.

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.

How the fuck is this number not higher?

That's actually a lot. I didn't think it would be that much. I try not to give into hype but if these numbers are true this might actually be Twitter dying. There is also no going back with some of the decisions elon made.

Deleted mine even though I actually only used it to read some accounts. It's unfortunate because there's some very knowledgeable people there but I'm not having anything to do with that dickbag.

I'm one of them

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.

Shit article, love the sentiment though! 😁

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

I think of Twitter , or X, does go away everyone's mental health will improve.

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.

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.

How long before he starts asking the government for a bailout. Is Twitter to big to fail?

I’m happy to say I’ve not used Twitter since they killed third party apps. Same reason I stopped using Reddit. Many other issues contributed, but in both cases the third party app situation was the breaking point.

70% to go!!

I am a Twitter "user" in the sense that I read the site for a few minutes every few days to see the latest news or drama.

Recently all the Elon drama is boring. So I'm in that decreased user count.