Twitter’s UK userbase has been absolutely decimated since Musk took over
Twitter’s UK userbase has been absolutely decimated since Musk took over
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Twitter’s UK userbase has been absolutely decimated since Musk took over
Twitter’s UK userbase has been absolutely decimated since Musk took over
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Utter cunt takes over: people leave. I’m shocked. Shocked! I tell ya
Not really surprising. Article does state its predominantly progressive leaning folk leaving in droves, but I can’t be the only one noticing how horrible it performs when I try to open a link to anywhere on it.
Half the time it straight up fails to find linked posts when I try now. It doesn’t really seem to be in a healthy place
Doesn’t surprise me. It’s become such a hell hole since he took over. The open bullying, the racism, the homophobia, transphobia and sexism, all allowed because “free speech”. It’s awful.
Twitter is a funny one, much like Reddit I hardly ever encounter anyone in real life that actually used it in the first place
Its absolutely crazy to me that one person basically single handedly destroyed one of the largest social media platforms.
Love the subtle jabs from every news outlet that still defiantly refers to it as Twitter. X is trash
They did also state they were cracking down on bots and removing them.
I wonder what percent are bots that have been removed and how many are real users, I’m sure there are the stats out there
I’m not surprised. It’s full of shit these days and most people I know have left. Threads hasn’t really replaced it either. Nowhere near as popular.
Despite its flaws, it’s still my go to whenever I need customer service. Much quicker response than emails and better than sitting on hold for ages on the phone.
I’d consider myself an open minded centrist and yet I couldn’t stand the dross, bile and spam on Twitter.
A bit weird this sub moaning about Twitter amongst its millionth daily mail article of the day attacking refugees
I don’t know why anyone would use that platform. It was dying before he took over, and he’s just made it worse.
Revenue:
2018 €2.65 B
2019 €3.08 B
2020 €3.04 B
2021 €4.46 B
2022 and 2023 No Revenue details
2024’s ad revenues projected at €4.32 B
Its users increased:
2018: 298 million users
2019: 312 million users
2020: 347 million users
2021: 362 million users
2022: 401 million users
2023: 541.56 million monthly active users
Employees decreased: 2021 7,490
Post-Layoffs (Late 2022) 1,560
2023 2,370
2024 2,840
It reduced its cost by getting out of multiple real estate leases.
It reduced bots significantly.
Some decent things happened too which I think place twitter in a more healthy position long term?
Freedom of speech reduction not great, although I do like their ability to address misinformation below other peoples comments claims.
I stopped using it when my main account was getting suggested posts of randomly violent videos with people beating each other up etc.
I just thought do I really need this added negativity to my life?
Twitter has become completely unusable, you click on a post and all the top comments are completely unrelated posts, normally by bots.
It’s now worse than Youtube comments are for getting opinions
Elon Musk complains about decreasing birth rates etc, but he doesn’t seem to be creating a dating app or trying to solve the problem.
Look at Japan, where the government have had to step in.
Shocking, it’s a shit platform owned by an even shitter person .
The only people I know who use Twitter (myself included) use it for keeping up with the local football as you don’t get the terrible opinions that you get on Facebook. Other than that it’s a complete cesspit, my for you page is football news with American right wing accounts and porn sprinkled in. You’re a few likes away from the algorithm putting nazi propaganda on your timeline.
I tend to agree by miles, the freedom of reach per say, is seemingly true, they even show you nobody are reading the comments lol (the few this normie makes) — i dont know if it boosts accounts when they post vs comment, or if it penalises by follows etc, its gone off the deep end with hard right politics its rumble lite, and it hasnt done anything for videos outside of a spinoff app and a couple long videos and some spaces… who knows.. a very wierd platform now, i used to be able to talk and get feedback, now nothing.. but reddit are taking the same if not worse turns.
Point is get off social medias lol my mistake. Point is the digital shadow stuff is stupid.
It’s full of right wing Americans now and the app icon looks like a service you trade women on for niche crypto currencies.
I’m on the left & I support free speech. For eg I don’t believe Trump should have ever been banned. I think some on the left do use cancel culture as a weapon.
My issue with Musk is he’s turned his website into a conspiracy-laden shit hole full of Nazis. And cancel culture is a tool for the right just as much as the left
He got forced to spend $44bn on his grand, genius plan to make a mainstream social media platform that has the politics and spirit of a 2014 4chan spinoff. Even the 4chan people realized that you just end up with a bunch of users who are Nazis and paedos and weirdos that you will never, ever sell too advertisers.
I have deleted my account now, was on twitter for quite a few years, now on bluesky and mastodon instead, more bluesky recently.
Im probably considered extreme far right by the mainstream media (heterosexual white male) but even I have quit Twitter due to the constant stream of fake news.
It’s the only place you can post without restrictions. It mightn’t be info or videos we want to see – but it’s important we do.
Deleted my account after being served constant videos of people being killed or seriously injured. Reported some awful comments and met with a standard response. EM appeared a bit of a knob. Won’t be going back.
Deleted my account last month. Was sick of seeing OnlyFan funnels (similar to Reddit these days), people getting murdered and other rage-bait. And no, it has nothing to do with the content I was perusing. Also a reminder never to open the app on public transport because you may need eye bleach quickly.
Twitter has always been and will remain a cesspool of extremist idiots from all walks of life. That and just plain stupid people.
Is Threads a credible alternative? Is anyone actually using it?
I started a profile, but then it just felt like maybe this micro posting bullshit thing was dated now, so I haven’t bothered with it.
Is it any good yet?
I only logged in once since it turned into X to deactivate my account
I tried deactivating my account a few weeks back, it’s just a cesspit of right wing nonsense, ultimately had to reactivate.
With Facebook when I find my feeds going too far one way I can usually track it back to either a friend sharing rubbish I don’t want or I can admit i’ve just spent too much time in that pond & a mute, or removing a Like I didn’t intend to tends to bring things back in line.
Twitter, no such luck, it just WANTS to feed me right wing/conspiracy content.
But, I found hitting hyperlinks from friends etc or just checking the status of servers etc simply required an X login just forced me to reactivate my account, I bet there’s millions in the same boat.
my interest in twitter peaked when international ed balls day was a thing. and that was a long long time ago
Why because people on Twitter started actually going back outside? I haven’t been on Twitter since 2022 but it was genuine cancer so it can’t be any worse.
logged on the other week, in my ‘for you’ tab was a serb guy I didn’t follow saying something nevertheless normal and inoffensive. right at the top of his replies, ‘the ustaše didn’t kill enough of you guys’. reported, no action. this is the standard twitter experience now