Submitted 1 year ago by L4s@lemmy.world [bot] to technology@lemmy.world
One year-post acquisition, X traffic and monthly active users are in decline, report claims::Despite proclamations from X CEO Linda Yaccarino that usage of the social network was at an all-time high this summer, a new report is throwing cold water
I used to interact with twitter at least a dozen times a day. Probably double that, really.
Since January it’s been 0 times a day.
Oh well.
I don’t miss much about it. My heart goes out to people who had communities on there that were important to them. Like many things, this hit minorities the hardest.
Unfortunately, “Rich asshole buys thing and screws minorities” is a daily occurrence. (Although rarely at this scale.)
Same but recently I only logged in maybe two, three times last week and this week zero. Only on there to retweet art
Everyone’s using Wayland, right? Oh wait… wrong X, same logo
Im pretty sure someone made the wayland.social mastodon instance for that exact purpose lol
Now even tweet previews are busted in Discord.
You can’t even share tweets without using something like fxtwitter.
PITA
All’s well that ends well. Don’t let the door hit you in the ass on your way to the garbage heap of internet failures.
Still in decline
What’s a “year-post”?
Hyphen in wrong spot. This error was present in the original headline.
That’s a really old xkcd! Thanks for digging it out!
Probably Elon Musks plan all along. Nobody is this stupid to run a company into a ground the way he has.
Nobody is this stupid
I really, really wonder… after the whole ripping out servers himself and sticking them in a truck incident, it’s clear the man has no idea how computer networks actually function. Mr. “This is making my brain hurt” probably couldn’t pass the CompTIA A+ cert, but he’s too arrogant to listen to people who are better qualified.
You vastly overestimate this turd’s ability. He was born rich and got lucky a couple of times.
I don’t know, I didn’t used to think he was doing on purpose. The man has a physics degree, so he’s not an idiot. I just find it hard to believe he has made so many dumb mistakes in a row without realizing it.
You’re still underestimating human stupidity? In 2023??
This is the best summary I could come up with:
On mobile devices in the U.S., performance had also declined 17.8% year-over-year, based on monthly active users on iOS and Android.
The firm’s estimates are determined by machine learning algorithms powered by millions of websites and apps’ first-party analytics, including through its own consumer products that measure device traffic data as well as through partnerships with other companies, including ISPs, other measurement firms, and demand-side platforms.
The report also indicates that X’s declines are part of a broader shift, as web traffic to the top 100 social networks and online communities the firm tracks were also down by 3.7% in September, save TikTok, which grew 22.8% on a global basis.
On mobile, the same trend was true, but X’s monthly active users declined by 17.8% in September, compared with Facebook and Instagram, down by 8% and 3.7%, respectively.
In addition, Similarweb’s analysis touches on the declining importance of X in the news ecosystem, noting that three years ago, The New York Times would receive 3-4% of its traffic from Twitter, but that’s now down to less than 1%.
Yaccarino also shared other figures at an event in October, noting that people are spending 14% more time on X, with a 20% increase in consuming video and that 1.5 million sign up for X daily, up 4% year-over-year.
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I don’t really know. Ive always been just a lurker, not a poster, on Twitter and I honestly haven’t noticed any significant changes. Their web traffic metrics are a data point but I just don’t know if they really tell us anything substantive.
don’t know if they really tell us anything substantive
That’s literally what statistics are, the most substantive evidence that exists
That definitely depends. 100% of people that drink water die is a statistic. The question is always whether the statistics are actually good
Rally@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I just want it to die already. Please move on from this shitshow
hansl@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Digg is still around. MySpace is still a thing. Hell, you can still download and run ICQ (though I think it’s run by a Russian company now).
There’s not a lot of real dead products on the internet. They just fade slowly behind the bushes, and I think X/Twitter is getting there.