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One year-post acquisition, X traffic and monthly active users are in decline, report claims

One year post-acquisition, X traffic and monthly active users are in decline, report claims | TechCrunch

https://techcrunch.com/2023/10/17/one-year-post-acquisition-x-traffic-and-monthly-active-users-are-in-decline-report-claims/

Despite proclamations from X CEO Linda Yaccarino that usage of the social network was at an all-time high this summer, a new report is throwing cold water

One year post-acquisition, X traffic and monthly active users are in decline, report claims | TechCrunch

One year-post acquisition, X traffic and monthly active users are in decline, report claims::Despite proclamations from X CEO Linda Yaccarino that usage of the social network was at an all-time high this summer, a new report is throwing cold water

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Rally

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I just want it to die already. Please move on from this shitshow

hansl

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Digg is still around. MySpace is still a thing. Hell, you can still download and run ICQ (though I think it’s run by a Russian company now).

There’s not a lot of real dead products on the internet. They just fade slowly behind the bushes, and I think X/Twitter is getting there.

garretble

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I used to interact with twitter at least a dozen times a day. Probably double that, really.

Since January it’s been 0 times a day.

Oh well.

stolid_agnostic

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What exactly did you do on there? I mean to ask what you found pleasurable or useful about it.

ilinamorato

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I'm not OP, but with my follow list it was great for learning little bits over the course of the day. Astronomy tidbit, history tidbit, anthropology tidbit. I also followed some pretty funny 280-character comedians, and participated in the odd hashtag game, but for the most part it was about learning things I didn't know.

stolid_agnostic

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Cheers!

seitanic

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I don't miss much about it. My heart goes out to people who had communities on there that were important to them. Like many things, this hit minorities the hardest.

Unfortunately, "Rich asshole buys thing and screws minorities" is a daily occurrence. (Although rarely at this scale.)

AzureRT

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Same but recently I only logged in maybe two, three times last week and this week zero. Only on there to retweet art

const_void

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Exactly as planned

seaQueue

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I'm just waiting to see how he uses this as a vehicle for tax evasion, or requests some kind of public bailout.

SiegeRhino

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now why on earth would an apartheid beneficiary do something like spend billions of dollars to dissolve an online platform used as a way for his political rivals to organize against him?

no it's because he is a dumb silly goose making wacky decisions! this was definitely not a targeted and malicious investment to make his enemies go away

phoenixz

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Never assume malice when sheer stupidity suffices.

Musk is a scammer and a retard. A very lucky one, for sure, and he knows how to rile people up, sure, but he's idiocy embodied.

Every idea coming out of his mouth is sheer stupidity, it's just thatost people are too busy chanting his name to really listen to what he's saying.

If this was an evil plan to rid himself from his enemies then the flying fuck would he pay twice Twitter's worth? you have to be really musk to do such a stupid thing. The only reason he isn't bankrupt broke and dead all at the same time is because of his ability to rile people up with lies. The only project that remotely might be called successful are telsa and SpaceX.

Tesla (very notoriously NOT founded by musk) is ENOURMOUSLY overvalued, by a factor 100-1000, and has already been dropping in value like a brick. Tesla's are horrible cars depreciate in value like no other. It started nice and flashy, like all musk projects , but other car brands will overtake it and within 2 years telsa will start to become yet another footnote in History.

SpaceX is hemorrhaging money and only continues to pay because all IS citizens fund the shit out of it. Yes, you pay for elon's toys.

Both companies exist only and ONLY by the grace of actual smart engineers trying to build something good. All musk has talked about these companies is bullshit. Men in mars in ~~2014~~ ~~2015~~ ~~2016~~ ~~2017~~ ~~2018~~.... You get the idea.

His AI and robotics company is just hilarious to watch as university students try to replicate shit that Boston dynamics already mastered 20 years ago, and then musk claims it's his new gold. That is not even mentioning that half the 20-year old-shit videos are still faked anyway because they can't even do that well.

He got his money from that 7zip (IIRC) company being bought out after he was fired for BEING INCOMPETENT. Let that sink in.

Point is.

Musk is an idiot. Stop assigning some evilnplot to him, he doesn't have the intelligence for that.

tsonfeir

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Everyone’s using Wayland, right? Oh wait… wrong X, same logo

moldyringwald

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Im pretty sure someone made the wayland.social mastodon instance for that exact purpose lol

stolid_agnostic

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And absolutely nothing of any value was lost. Unless you're a reporter needing a low-effort article, I guess.

Pxtl

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Look, I know we used to call it the hellsite but I miss Twitter. I followed a million amazing artists and musicians and and Podcasters municipal politicians and activists and journalists. Real people doing real stuff.

Twitter was the place to follow all the Internet Famous creators.

And now it isn't.

Lemmy/Reddit is still the best workflow for following topics, but Twitter's flow was the best place to follow people. And now that's been broken up into Mastodon, BlueSky, Threads, and Twitter. Sucks.

stolid_agnostic

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People used to do RSS feeds. If you want that constant feed of information, you should subscribe to some--they still exist.

HeyThisIsntTheYMCA

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Tumblr is the hellsite

SinningStromgald

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All's well that ends well. Don't let the door hit you in the ass on your way to the garbage heap of internet failures.

pirrrrrrrr

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Now even tweet previews are busted in Discord.

You can't even share tweets without using something like fxtwitter.

PITA

HeyThisIsntTheYMCA

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Still in decline

autotldr

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This is the best summary I could come up with:

On mobile devices in the U.S., performance had also declined 17.8% year-over-year, based on monthly active users on iOS and Android.

The firm’s estimates are determined by machine learning algorithms powered by millions of websites and apps’ first-party analytics, including through its own consumer products that measure device traffic data as well as through partnerships with other companies, including ISPs, other measurement firms, and demand-side platforms.

The report also indicates that X’s declines are part of a broader shift, as web traffic to the top 100 social networks and online communities the firm tracks were also down by 3.7% in September, save TikTok, which grew 22.8% on a global basis.

On mobile, the same trend was true, but X’s monthly active users declined by 17.8% in September, compared with Facebook and Instagram, down by 8% and 3.7%, respectively.

In addition, Similarweb’s analysis touches on the declining importance of X in the news ecosystem, noting that three years ago, The New York Times would receive 3-4% of its traffic from Twitter, but that’s now down to less than 1%.

Yaccarino also shared other figures at an event in October, noting that people are spending 14% more time on X, with a 20% increase in consuming video and that 1.5 million sign up for X daily, up 4% year-over-year.

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hdnsmbt

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What's a "year-post"?

ChaoticNeutralCzech

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Hyphen in wrong spot. This error was present in the original headline.

hdnsmbt

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That's a really old xkcd! Thanks for digging it out!

Stoney_Logica1

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wantd2B1ofthestrokes

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I don’t really know. Ive always been just a lurker, not a poster, on Twitter and I honestly haven’t noticed any significant changes to my timeline. Their web traffic metrics are a data point but I just don’t know if they really tell us anything substantive.

sebinspace

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don’t know if they really tell us anything substantive

That’s literally what statistics are, the most substantive evidence that exists

wantd2B1ofthestrokes

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That definitely depends. “100% of people that drink water die” is a statistic. The question is always whether the statistics are actually good

sebinspace

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Whether or not you’re intelligent enough to notice when statistics are being used to fuck with you is separate from whether or not those statistics are real.

wantd2B1ofthestrokes

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I mean a statistic can be “real” and also not useful. A person can also be statistically illiterate. I’m not sure these realities validate their web traffic metrics as something that’s really measuring what’s important to twitter’s long term health.

Definitely does not blanket make all statistics useful.

sebinspace

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I get what you mean. And if your experience is contrary to what the statistics say, carry on, you do you, but the big picture has absolutely shifted

Edit: guys are bashing tf out of you, I don’t know why, your point isn’t invalid, I just misunderstood it from the start

threelonmusketeers

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100% of people that drink water die

The question is always whether the statistics are actually good

Technically, that is not a good statistic. Only ~93% of people that drank water have died. 8 billion are still alive.

NocturnalMorning

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Probably Elon Musks plan all along. Nobody is this stupid to run a company into a ground the way he has.

NaibofTabr

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Nobody is this stupid

I really, really wonder... after the whole ripping out servers himself and sticking them in a truck incident, it's clear the man has no idea how computer networks actually function. Mr. "This is making my brain hurt" probably couldn't pass the CompTIA A+ cert, but he's too arrogant to listen to people who are better qualified.

some_guy

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You vastly overestimate this turd’s ability. He was born rich and got lucky a couple of times.

NocturnalMorning

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I don't know, I didn't used to think he was doing on purpose. The man has a physics degree, so he's not an idiot. I just find it hard to believe he has made so many dumb mistakes in a row without realizing it.

CosmicTurtle

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That's the problem. He's made a shit ton of mistakes and he hasn't realized it. His own internal numbers show that the platform is in decline but he's just saying "No. It's the users who are wrong."

stolid_agnostic

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Anybody can get a physics degree--a baccalaureate level university education simply isn't that difficult. Really, it's a question of the time and effort, and any talents or intelligence you have will make it easier.

NocturnalMorning

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Have you ever taken an advanced physics course before? Bcz it sounds like you haven't. I'd also like to add that my bachelor's degree in aerospace engineering was anything but easy.

stolid_agnostic

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I’m not saying that it’s easy. Rather, it’s that you can brute force your way through a bachelors degree. Work ethic versus intelligence. That innate ability to intuit a subject will be more important at the grad level.

8ender

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Intelligence != Wisdom

HeyThisIsntTheYMCA

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I know a few idiots with physics degrees. Being able to do maths doesn't mean you're smart.

stolid_agnostic

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LOL LOL the only reason Paypal succeeded is because they kicked him out. He wanted to call it x.com too. All those other companies that he supposedly runs? They are doing much better now that he's obsessed with Twitter and not bothering the actual smart people who work there.

hdnsmbt

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You're still underestimating human stupidity? In 2023??

q47tx

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True.