Exclusive Data: Twitter Is Shrinking Under Elon Musk
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Twitter's lost 13% of its daily users and its rebrand has failed. But those remaining on the app are still engaged, according to new data from Apptopia. Threads, meanwhile, is a nonfactor.

The new data — comprehensive and definitive — should put to rest the countervailing narratives over Musk’s management of the app. Under his stewardship, X’s daily user base has declined from an estimated 140 million users to 121 million, with a widening gap between people who check the app daily vs. monthly. X’s remaining daily users are engaged similarly as before. But the pool is shrinking. Apptopia pulls its data from more than 100,000 apps on iOS and Android, along with publicly available sources.

So apparently it lost only 13% of daily users? Thats a smaller number than I thought. Still bad news for Twitter though.

On the other hand, it shows the power of content creators and niche communities. I used less Twitter but cannot delete it because it is literally how I connect with my niche community on there.

  • dan@upvote.au
    22·
    1 year ago

    Reddit and Lemmy are definitely social media. A subreddit or Lemmy community is effectively the same idea as a Facebook group, just with pseudonyms.

    • anachronistEnglish
      6·
      1 year ago

      The quantifiably different thing about lemmy is nobody is trying to trap you in a skinner box.

      • Rambi@lemm.ee
        9·
        1 year ago

        I mean it kind of ends up being a Skinner box anyway just because of the loop of scrolling, seeing a post, looking at it and repeating. But I agree nobody is actively trying to trap you in one.

      • dan@upvote.au
        2·
        1 year ago

        Social media has always excluded forum like sites.

        So are you saying that Facebook Groups aren’t social media either? That’s a forum like site. Tumblr isn’t social media either?

        This is Merriam-Webster’s definition of social media:

        forms of electronic communication (such as websites for social networking and microblogging) through which users create online communities to share information, ideas, personal messages, and other content (such as videos)

        This is Cambridge’s:

        websites and computer programs that allow people to communicate and share information on the internet using a computer or cell phone

        Lemmy and Reddit both fall under these definitions.

        Reddit technically added followers, but you cannot see nor interact with them,

        Not sure what you mean by this… Reddit has had chats and PMs for a long time.

        It most definitely does not include anonymous sites

        Neither Lemmy nor Reddit are anonymous. They’re pseudonymous. Something like 4chan where you don’t even need an account is anonymous.

          • dan@upvote.au
            1·
            1 year ago

            literally every single website on the entire planet meet those definitions.

            Complain to the dictionaries about it, then :) for now I’m sticking with the dictionary definitions.

            but anonymous means it does not require real information

            Every post you make on Reddit or Lemmy is tied to your username. There’s only one snowe@programming.dev and every post under that username is made by you. That’s why it’s pseudonomous, not anonymous - it forms an identity for you.

            An anonymous system would have no way to tell that your posts are by the same person. See something like 4chan. You could post a comment or thread under the name “snowe”, but it’s anonymous because anyone can do that. There’s no way to connect your posts together.