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Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 2 days agoI don’t use twitter, but the reason people still do is the same reason people still use reddit.
It’s where the people are. Normally this is the part where I use some big exaggerated example of what COULD be happening on twitter and they’d still use it. However, saying “They would still use use it if it catered to pedophiles and nazis” is not only true, because they are, but it’s also the most exaggerated example I can think of.
No matter what twitter does, people will still use them, BECAUSE people use them. Twitter has something like 375million people, while Mastadon has varying reported numbers, but I’m seeing 7million, 10million or 12million depending on who’s talking. That’s still a far cry from 375million.
The hard part is figuring out how many of those 375million are bots.
U7826391786239@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
i suspected as much, and have said so. i was just hoping maybe an actual twitter user would come out and try to defend that bullshit. i know, tall order on lemmy
thejml@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
I stopped when it became X. However it was full of racist, bigotry and hatred before then as well.
I used it to keep up with some content creators and tech companies but I did so by getting an API key and running a cli that only pulled down messages from who I followed. Made it much more bearable and useful.
Since the Xittification, API keys are expensive and I’ve either followed them elsewhere, or mostly just given up. Some dropped it, but when you have thousands to millions of followers on a platform, from their side, it’s hard to lose that audience.
I used to like Twitter when it started, following people and small companies/communities was super easy and the 140char limit nice and terse for both the posters and the ones following. Then it shat the bed and then it got bought out and while some still post there because of followers, most have left or just disappeared.
U7826391786239@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
what does this signify? if these people are “following” you, are they really following you if they can’t be assed to follow you to a different platform? or is it possible that they’re all just bullshit and don’t actually give a flying fuck about you? is that what people are afraid of?
out of those thousands/millions of followers, how many of them are actually engaging/sharing/memeing your shit?
Pika@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
In the case of content creators, you go where your audience goes. Almost all of the content creators I watch went back to twitter and almost exclusively post only live notices and social updates. I don’t have one that has a good opinion of the platform but, there’s a much larger audience there so therefore they stay.
Visibility is everything, and there are many steps between following you off the platform and not engaging with your stuff. Many will not follow a creator to an alternative platform if it means having to juggle an additional network, they will just let that creator fall out of their interest group.
Heck, the same can be said about viewers as well though, I know for a fact I wouldn’t be on lemmy if I still used reddit. It is too annoying having to juggle multiple social media platforms.
limelight79@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Twitter was useful for getting updates about sports during games - for example, an update on whether a player who was injured might return to the game, or sometimes, more detail on something weird that happened (you’d be shocked at how poorly informed people in the arena are, compared to those watching on TV). A lot of this depends on who is feeding the info, though, and the more recent beat reporters for our favorite hockey team haven’t been as active on Twitter, so I closed my account after Musk bought it. Haven’t really missed it.
But even today, every article about something that happened in a game will embed a Twitter link for video. Like there’s no other possibility - just Twitter.
I’m not defending this, just saying that sports use it extremely heavily.