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Twitter's lost 13% of its daily users and its rebrand has failed (www.bigtechnology.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Can't you just follow them via one of the mirror instances like bird.makeup?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Interesting.

Every time I follow a twitter/X link it asks me to log in to read it. Which I cannot do as I never bothered to get one. Is there a way to read those links without an account?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

bird.makeup is fediverse server software. it creates mirror accounts from twitter users, which means that you can follow twitter accounts from Mastodon (or CalcKey, Pleroma, etc).

You can also just use something like nitter.net to follow and browsing Twitter without an account.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I don't have any intention to follow anything, I just want to follow the occasional twitter link.