It went down hill fast. The amount of right-wing propaganda skyrocketed ... weird
this post was submitted on 03 Nov 2024
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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.
I've just had to look out a morbid curiosity and yeah it's all Trump. I am being encouraged to vote for Donald Trump. This is a man who is to anathema pretty much all of my beliefs, of course I'm not going to vote for him he seriously wants to be a dictator.
Also, I'm not American so I can't vote for him anyway.
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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.
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Weird how right wing content and popularity has an inverse square power law. Sooooo weird.
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Exactly as intended.
X-actly as intended.
FTFY
I don't think I'm tall enough for this ride, can I get off?
ARTISTS, JOURNALISTS, POLITICIANS, LEAVE TWITTER NOW, YOU IDIOTS
Sports journalists in particular — so annoying that all breaking NFL news goes through Xitter.
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.
Taylor Swift moving to another platform would absolutely cause a massive crowd to follow. Maybe we'll see it happen one day.
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I almost want to have used x, so I could quit using it and improve this statistic.
But I never did
I never used twitter but I deleted my account right after muskrat bought it.
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Just sign up for bluesky and mastodon then. Become a statistic on that side.
Im on Mastodon. Rarely use it because I'm no fan of the format (same reason I never got into Twitter). I do jump on and follow causes that I support that switch to it.
That's not how it works. They already didn't use Twitter because it's not useful to them, why would they use a similar service now?
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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.
True, but we live in an economy that only rewards growth...
It's even worse in social media, because most users that sign up stop using it at some point.
So the product can die pretty quick if they don't generate new users, especially when they alienate old ones.
Indeed. Active users (say, used within the past month) is a much better metric.
I often wonder about this for many (especially older) YouTube channels - your channel is 15 years old, how many of your 500k subscribers actually still watch or even have active accounts?
I wonder what subscriber growth rate a typical YouTube channel needs just in order to maintain a consistent level of watchers?
It's only a good metric if half of them aren't bots.
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You're assuming he gives a shit about how much profit it's making.
It's not a public company, it's now his private playground to try to get millions of people to see only the "free speech" he wants them to see, and exert political influence.
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Well, Elmo thought it was going to exceed 1 billion after 12-18 months.
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You are a MAU if you use the platform once a month by opening the app by mistake, and also if you doom scroll for 10 hours a day.
You continue to be one if you go from one to the other. Musk has been cherry picking stats before, so what they release will be the nicest numbers they can find.
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September 25, 2024
Oof, that explains why I had a feeling that I read it before
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
There's been some reporting that Musk's Super PAC has been paying its workers so well that it's poached a bunch of the volunteers from the official campaign, and is so poorly run/audited that a lot of the workers are entering false data into the canvassing reports to qualify for bonuses. If that turns out to be true, then it will have been the case that Musk is burning his own money while hurting the Trump campaign.
I'm not ready to call the race, but stories like this at least reassure me that for Republicans, they're not sending their best.
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Great. Why are people still linking to x?
oh no!
anyway,
Concerning.
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.
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