- cross-posted to:
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- technology@beehaw.org
- cross-posted to:
- technology@lemmy.ml
- technology@beehaw.org
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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.
(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.
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 the fuck is this number not higher?
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
“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 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.
mention of crypto would trigger some random moron to embarrass himself
the self fulfilling prophecy.
