Comment on Twitter / X is losing daily active users. CEO Linda Yaccarino confirmed it.

whitecapstromgard@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Especially journalists. Why are you using a platform that is actively hostile to you?

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  • Diplomjodler@feddit.de ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Exposure. Present day journalism lives and dies by exposure. If you’re not willing to prostitute yourself for exposure, you have no chance

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    • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yeah, but exposure to who, Nazis?

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      • CileTheSane@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Users are only down 10%. If the only ones left are Nazis that is a lot of Nazis.

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    • Microw@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The actual news Outlets dont need that. Twitter brings in nearly no readers/watchers to their own sites.

      The journalists who are on X are there to promote themselves.

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  • AnAngryAlpaca@feddit.de ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Because the people or companies they report on still use the platform :(

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  • whitecapstromgard@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Most journalists are entertainers in disguise. They do not care, as long as there is an audience.

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  • DNU@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Until every last one is banned and has to move on.

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• MeanEYE@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Am actually surprised people expected different outcome. Sure, some security and privacy loving people would have left. Others might have been against new policies or disliked where it was going. But majority are just going to do what majority does… that is to say, stay.

  People have been so desensitized to so many things I wouldn’t be surprised if someone invented butt-plugs which vibrate near a restaurant with good reviews and people would be trampling over each other on black friday to buy a six pack for the whole family. Regardless of the fact it tracks your movement and makes you walk like a broom stick is stuck in your rectum. It gives good reviews!!! And then of course Apple would come 3-18 years late to the market and invent anodized aluminum one which has a glowing logo so fans can recognize each other by glowing bottoms and everyone would scream revolution.

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  • vidarh@lemmy.stad.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’m mostly shocked they’ve not lost more and faster. I get more engagement on my ~500 follower Mastodon account than my ~50k follower twitter account these days (sure, I could paid the manchild for more exposure, and if he wasn’t so insufferable and had actually made the service better, I might’ve considered that)

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    • MeanEYE@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It’s possible that you have different audience type on those two. But regardless, your own experience is not a measure of millions of users at large.

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      • vidarh@lemmy.stad.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        If my own experience had been unique, or been contradicted by the data, you’d have a point, but it’s an experience shared by almost everyone I follow, many of whom have abandoned larger followings on Twitter for the same reason, and it’s an experience where the only thing in question given the data is how rapid the decline is, not whether the decline is happening.

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• falkerie71@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Can’t speak for other people, but I use Twitter and Reddit for different reasons. I use Reddit for communities I have an interest in, so when the move to Lemmy/kbin started, it wasn’t that hard for me to migrate over. For Twitter though, I use it to follow specific people and/or company news, so unless they decide to migrate to Mastodon or other platforms, Twitter will still be a site I visit.

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• Critical_Insight@feddit.uk ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  So far no one has given me compelling reason to leave.

  Why do you care anyways? I can’t figure out why anyone would use something like Facebook or TikTok either, but they do and I’m not going around calling them spineless. Not everyone needs to like/not like the things I do.

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  • Syrc@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Why do you care anyways?

    Because I want enshittified platforms to fail so this horrible “trend” can stop and companies actually start focusing again on “how to make a better site” instead of “how to make the site that will make us the most money”

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    • Critical_Insight@feddit.uk ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      This is a good example of what I mean, when I said that no one has given me a compelling reason. Not everyone needs to like/not like things you do. I’d like other people to do things that would benefit my desires aswell, but I don’t go around demanding that. Twitter is no shittier today than it was the day I joined. From my perspective, nothing has changed, so I have no more reason to leave than I had reason to join in the first place.

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