It went down hill fast. The amount of right-wing propaganda skyrocketed … weird
When I logged in about six weeks after the ownership change my feed included Elon Musk, Andrew Tate and 2-3 other right wing influencers. I follow none of these people, I have zero interest in what they have to say and I find them reprehensible. I deleted my account and haven’t used the platform since.
I stopped in today after months because my friend is launching a game and I wanted to give them a like and a comment. When I left Twitter my feed was just nerd shit and makers.
When I logged in today it was several right wing advertisements at the top. When I went to search it was more Trump shit. I just wanted to support my indie friend. That’s it for me.
Tell your friend he should consider Bluesky
The only person I had blocked on Twitter before I deleted my account was Elon.
I swear I couldn’t be that annoying if I tried.
Yeah same. When he started topping my feed despite me blocking him I ejected from his platform and washed my hands of the whole thing.
I’ve never had a Twitter account, but this makes me want to create one just so I can quit
ARTISTS, JOURNALISTS, POLITICIANS, LEAVE TWITTER NOW, YOU IDIOTS
TAYLOR SWIFT WE NEED YOU! WHERE ARE YOU? DON’T LEAVE US WE NEED HELP!
This is obviously tounge in check but it feels closer to real than it should be.
In X’s EU user base report consisting of data from February to July 2023, Musk’s social media platform had 112.2 million monthly active users in the EU. In the following six month period from August 2023 to January 2024, that number dropped to 111.4 million users.
That’s a minuscule drop % wise
X’s most recent report, covering February to July 2024, showed that its user base in the EU fell once more to 105.9 million.
And these are datapoints they release themselves, 3rd party data points hint at bigger losses.
You only need to hop on for 30s or so to realize why people wouldn’t feel inclined to spend time there unless it to quickly bathe one’s self in fascism and misinformation.
Sort of what America will feel like if Elon gets his scummy hands on political power.
If we can just get it to fail completely that’d be great, if that’ll make him a non billionaire
I see you attended the same business school as Elon. Yeah, great observation: businesses hate growth, and want to see miniscule declines, it shows strength!!
Who cares about users when Nazi ceo is high on Russian bot army
These billionaire special snowflakes sure go through a lot of effort to build safe spaces for themselves
He’s burning it to the ground to try to get Trump elected.
I’m hoping he can burn both to the ground
Great. Why are people still linking to x?
They’re still banning or driving away anyone outside of Musk’s echo chamber.
The vast majority of users are not big time contributors to the site’s quality content. But the content creators had the biggest targets on their back for retaliation. After so many bans over such a long period, there’s just less and less people to post quality content for the majority to consume.
Cracking down on narrative control doesn’t force the public to see things your way. It just drives them to other, more relevant platforms. Not sure how many times we need to go through this cycle for them to understand how futile this is.
And in Mexico, Nicaragua, Honduras, Panama, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, and Buenos Aires, no es possible, nadie Vuela mas barato!
Anyone else that cannot read this article? When I try to scroll it just don’t move…
No issues on android Firefox with ad blocker
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X sucks, but Threads is even worse. 99% of everything I have ever seen on Threads is pure distilled engagement bait, and half the time expanding replies gets stuck loading. I wish I were exaggerating, but I’m not.
99% of everything I have ever seen on Threads is pure distilled engagement bait,
That sounds exactly like XTwitter…
It’s even worse on Threads, believe it or not.
I’ll have to take your word for that.
I have no interest in using either platform.
Right there with you on that
