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[–] Jordan117 280 points 1 year ago (7 children)

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.

[–] Nerrad 175 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes the article is junk. Yet it feeds my confirmation bias in a pleasing way.

[–] Mudface 50 points 1 year ago

Hey bro, Twitter sucks!

(I hope that helps too)

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Un-fact checked, poorly seemingly AI written, citing no sources? So you're saying it's perfect for Twitter?

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I haven't had the chance to look up the data myself, but if downloads did decline in a way that's unprecedented its a strong loss leader. To be really interesting though you'd have to couple it with other metrics.

Edit: There are people implying they work or worked at Twitter. They didn't.

[–] drdabbles 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Declining downloads simply means a slowing of growth, whereas this is claiming a user decline. That only shows up in traffic logs, transit commits, or CDN account usage data.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Not necessarily.

Every time someone buys a new device they have to reinstall the app. So declining downloads could be indicitive of less users.

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[–] [email protected] 95 points 1 year ago (1 children)

(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.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Downloads doesn't mean usage. I really hope it happens one day but it isn't currently the case. We need governments, politicians and media to wake up.

[–] [email protected] 70 points 1 year ago (11 children)

Xwitter is a Nazi hate cesspool. I deleted my account not long after Musk took over. I would be delighted to see it fail, and Musk brought down a few notches.

[–] m13 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I’d also like to see him brought down a few notches… like down to the bottom of the Mariana Trench in a leaky submarine.

[–] phoneymouse 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] kSPvhmTOlwvMd7Y7E 68 points 1 year ago (5 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 64 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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.

[–] Ibex0 8 points 1 year ago

A lot of big-fat-jerks on there lately. 🤷‍♂️

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[–] FiftyShadesOfLatte 61 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I would like to formally invite everyone to Mastodon.

[–] Ensign_Crab 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Everyone? Like, even the nazis? Because there seem to be an awful lot of them on xitter.

[–] Plopp 31 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sure, they can be on their defederated lil nazi instance.

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[–] systemglitch 46 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Never attribute to malice what can be explained by incompetence.

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[–] TwoGems 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 year ago (2 children)

"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".

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

You haven't heard of "Dude" and "Trust me, bro"? They're incredibly popular research companies.

[–] Skkorm 34 points 1 year ago

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

[–] DevCat 30 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 57 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Wow, who would have thought that crypto people, the dumbest people on the entire Internet, would end up posting rw conspiracies.

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[–] asunaspersonalasst 21 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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.

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[–] reddig33 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

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[–] chickenfish 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (8 children)

How the fuck is this number not higher?

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[–] MataVatnik 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

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[–] BonesOfTheMoon 13 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] techgearwhips 12 points 1 year ago

I'm one of them

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Shit article, love the sentiment though! 😁

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[–] Buffalox 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

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.

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[–] ViewSonik 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] Fapper_McFapper 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

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[–] Olap 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)
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