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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.
Yes the article is junk. Yet it feeds my confirmation bias in a pleasing way.
Hey bro, Twitter sucks!
(I hope that helps too)
You mean I got my pitchfork out for nothing?
Guess I’ll put it away…
Imagine paying 40 billion for it too. The moron is so disconnected, I hope he gets butt cancer.
I was thinking the same thing. I couldn’t figure out if it was AI or translated (or both).
Downloads did plummet after the name change. But likely because non-tech nerds have no idea the name changed.
Un-fact checked, poorly seemingly AI written, citing no sources? So you’re saying it’s perfect for Twitter?
And every other link sharing site unfortunately. Lemmy included.
Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
https://piped.video/watch?v=lif6Xq_jQJk
Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
I’m open-source, check me out at GitHub.
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.
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.
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Not necessarily.
Every time someone buys a new device they have to reinstall the app. So declining downloads could be indicitive of less users.
Thank you.
Yeah and also, in capitalism, if a company ceases to grow, there’s a good chance it will vaporize soon after. It’s not a causation, but it’s a notable correlation.
Yup! There are people out there with big pockets watching for stats much subtler than this. It doesn’t always mean much taken on its own, but as a whole can paint an interesting picture.
whole can paint an interesting picture.
I know there’s meant to be a comma after ‘whole’. But I just pictured someone dumping a whole can of paint on a canvas and yelling “time!” Before walking over and slapping it on an easel at an auction and selling it for millions, while still dripping.
I almost want to add a hyphen now to make it official.
Phone replacement is a high seasonality situation. CDN usage and access logs will absolutely show whether usage has declined or not. Release an iPhone and you see a major spike in new downloads, otherwise it’s probably all pretty much background noise.
My guess is everything involving Twitter has been on a decline, and the things I did know I’m not able to share.
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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.
I use X pretty much daily and I have no idea where you are getting this from. Haven’t seen a single nazi post.
Your feed is much cleaner than the ones I see, that’s for sure. I usually attribute it to being a moderate, since I see fringe nonsense on either end.
Honestly, same. I’ve seen a severe decline in post quality, but no nazi posts.
I saw that shit all the time before I deleted my account. If you have seen a decline in quality since I deleted my account after Muskrat took over, that place must be absolutely fucked these days.
Could it be that some people react more to such posts which makes The Algorithm decide that they
likeabsolutely need to see more of such content?Very likely, yes. I guess it also helps to have quite a broad definition of what being a nazi means.
I feel like your username suggests a bias on the subject.
Tesla drivers are now Nazis?
Yes, that is the reasonable and intelligent interpretation of what I said.
Thank you, that is such a reasonable and intelligent response.
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.
Made of carbon fiber
Catastrophic implosion
How the fuck is this number not higher?
Inertia. Give it more time.
Also bots. Bots don’t have ethics or intolerance, so the people running them have no reason to stop.
Rest of the site is probably bots
How the fuck is this technology?
I agree completely that it shouldn’t be, but Twitter and Facebook/Meta are considered tech companies.
Yes Meta has some tech today, but they were considered a tech company from the beginning, merely for being on the Internet!!!
IMO That’s like considering a baker a tech company, because they have a cash register with buttons. But that’s the world we live in.
My exact though at first. Then I remembered probably half of all Xitter accounts are ghost anyway. Which makes 30% overall decrease equivalent to 60% decrease within active users.
You have already applied as much reason as the entire article, and also given as much hard data and sources. In fact, reading your comment is probably worth more than the article.
PS
And NO this is NOT sarcasm!
btw xitter is pronounced shitter
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.
Thanks way better article.
the app’s downloads fell by almost 30% compared with the preceding two months,
Very different from losing 30% of users the OP headline claims.
Yeah I’ve stopped using Xwitter entirely. Musk is an idiot capitalist who ruins everything he touches.
I just couldn’t have seen this coming. /s
Combine it with this:
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.
That’s not actually a lot.
This 30% comes after at least as high a percentage already left in the half year after the narcissistic sociopath took over.
Pretty much everyone I was subbed to was already gone, either account closed or inactive, by the time I closed my account.
And my Twitter account was almost as old as my Gmail account. I accrued a rather substantial list of people I followed through the past nearly 2 decades.
Damn, that’s even worse! Holy crap. The more people leave the less viable the platform becomes. Social media networks only function when there’s other people in them.
I’m one of them!
o7 Thank you for your service!
Well, I’m obviously a fediverse user now. Mastodon.world answered donation needs too!
That’s ok, they’ll make up for it by adding 30% more bots.
I uninstalled the app after the rebrand. Twitter bird used occasionally, X app sat there looking like a porn app so I uninstalled.
(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.
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.
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.
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.
Wow, who would have thought that crypto people, the dumbest people on the entire Internet, would end up posting rw conspiracies.
Wow, who would have thought the mention of crypto would trigger some random moron to embarrass himself with some butthurt statement.
I didn’t. I thought such people are not on lemmy yet. I was sadly wrong.
Funny when the 1 month old account remarks that to the 9 month old account.
Hate to break it to you bub: the only places where the majority of people do not think cryptocurrencies are a scam, are crypto hangouts, and places where they haven’t heard about cryptos at all.
Is it funny? Because generally for that to be funny, the account age would have to be linked somehow to credibility. I’m sure you are not stating that,because that would be incredibly stupid.
Please “brake it to me” more. Explain how everyone thinks that. Maybe some study? Some survey? Explain it to me and then explain why I hell would I care? You have no idea how dumb you seem right now. Like some flat earth dumbass explaining how wrong everybody else is.
I apologise if I have offended you or made you doubt your worldview.
Great content guys, I learned a lot. (writes in notebook: “crypto…is…bad”)
mention of crypto would trigger some random moron to embarrass himself
the self fulfilling prophecy.
Hey! I represent that remark!
That’s 30% less downloads, not 30% less traffic . I am not sure how that translates to current users.
If it counts updates, that would mean 30% fewer people have the app installed.
Or X don’t pushed any new update in last month 😉
Give the rapid churn in their code base these days, I’m gonna press X to doubt that.
It’s barely been 6 weeks since the change from Twitter to X was announced… I don’t know for certain but I suspect there to have been at least one update in the last month.
Good question…
There’s always some background noise in installs. People get new devices constantly and they’d usually download it again. Those are fewer
Then there’s usually some consistent downloads from new users. Those are probably down
Traffic being down is a good measure and that’s dropping too
