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 just want it to die already. Please move on from this shitshow
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.
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.
What exactly did you do on there? I mean to ask what you found pleasurable or useful about it.
I’m not OP, but with my follow list it was great for learning little bits over the course of the day. Astronomy tidbit, history tidbit, anthropology tidbit. I also followed some pretty funny 280-character comedians, and participated in the odd hashtag game, but for the most part it was about learning things I didn’t know.
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.)
Exactly as planned
now why on earth would an apartheid beneficiary do something like spend billions of dollars to dissolve an online platform used as a way for his political rivals to organize against him?
no it’s because he is a dumb silly goose making wacky decisions! this was definitely not a targeted and malicious investment to make his enemies go away
Everyone’s using Wayland, right? Oh wait… wrong X, same logo
And absolutely nothing of any value was lost. Unless you’re a reporter needing a low-effort article, I guess.
Look, I know we used to call it the hellsite but I miss Twitter. I followed a million amazing artists and musicians and and Podcasters municipal politicians and activists and journalists. Real people doing real stuff.
Twitter was the place to follow all the Internet Famous creators.
And now it isn’t.
Lemmy/Reddit is still the best workflow for following topics, but Twitter’s flow was the best place to follow people. And now that’s been broken up into Mastodon, BlueSky, Threads, and Twitter. Sucks.
