• Jordan117@lemmy.world
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    I’m all for shitting on Xitter, but this is a pretty bad article. It’s written like somebody put it through Google Translate a few times, and doesn’t cite any sources for any of its claims. Closest I could find was this Business Insider story on a report by Apptopia, which only says that its downloads in various app stores declined 30%, not its overall userbase.

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      Un-fact checked, poorly seemingly AI written, citing no sources? So you’re saying it’s perfect for Twitter?

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      I haven’t had the chance to look up the data myself, but if downloads did decline in a way that’s unprecedented its a strong loss leader. To be really interesting though you’d have to couple it with other metrics.

      Edit: There are people implying they work or worked at Twitter. They didn’t.

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        Declining downloads simply means a slowing of growth, whereas this is claiming a user decline. That only shows up in traffic logs, transit commits, or CDN account usage data.

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          Not necessarily.

          Every time someone buys a new device they have to reinstall the app. So declining downloads could be indicitive of less users.

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            Yeah and also, in capitalism, if a company ceases to grow, there’s a good chance it will vaporize soon after. It’s not a causation, but it’s a notable correlation.

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              Yup! There are people out there with big pockets watching for stats much subtler than this. It doesn’t always mean much taken on its own, but as a whole can paint an interesting picture.

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                whole can paint an interesting picture.

                I know there’s meant to be a comma after ‘whole’. But I just pictured someone dumping a whole can of paint on a canvas and yelling “time!” Before walking over and slapping it on an easel at an auction and selling it for millions, while still dripping.

          • Dr. Dabbles@lemmy.world
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            Phone replacement is a high seasonality situation. CDN usage and access logs will absolutely show whether usage has declined or not. Release an iPhone and you see a major spike in new downloads, otherwise it’s probably all pretty much background noise.

            My guess is everything involving Twitter has been on a decline, and the things I did know I’m not able to share.

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      Imagine paying 40 billion for it too. The moron is so disconnected, I hope he gets butt cancer.

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    (citation needed) Seriously there are zero sources, numbers and article ends with a typical interaction bait. As a Turkish person who knows the Turkish shiftdelete I was almost happy that they have an English version for global market but not this tabloid like junk.

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    Xwitter is a Nazi hate cesspool. I deleted my account not long after Musk took over. I would be delighted to see it fail, and Musk brought down a few notches.

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      I’d also like to see him brought down a few notches… like down to the bottom of the Mariana Trench in a leaky submarine.

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      I use X pretty much daily and I have no idea where you are getting this from. Haven’t seen a single nazi post.

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        Your feed is much cleaner than the ones I see, that’s for sure. I usually attribute it to being a moderate, since I see fringe nonsense on either end.

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        Honestly, same. I’ve seen a severe decline in post quality, but no nazi posts.

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          I saw that shit all the time before I deleted my account. If you have seen a decline in quality since I deleted my account after Muskrat took over, that place must be absolutely fucked these days.

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            Could it be that some people react more to such posts which makes The Algorithm decide that they like absolutely need to see more of such content?

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              Very likely, yes. I guess it also helps to have quite a broad definition of what being a nazi means.

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      Good question…

      There’s always some background noise in installs. People get new devices constantly and they’d usually download it again. Those are fewer

      Then there’s usually some consistent downloads from new users. Those are probably down

      Traffic being down is a good measure and that’s dropping too

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          Give the rapid churn in their code base these days, I’m gonna press X to doubt that.

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          It’s barely been 6 weeks since the change from Twitter to X was announced… I don’t know for certain but I suspect there to have been at least one update in the last month.

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    I’m skeptical of this article, but I know my own usage went to almost 0 because of how awful the bots and trolls are now. Blue checks are prioritized in the comment section and they’re usually awful people or maybe paid trolls or bots, and it makes the app unusable and unpleasant. That’s really the thing that killed it for me.

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      I never used Twitter or X or the company formally known as Twitter or whatever the hell we’re calling it now but how did the prioritization work before? Was it just sorted by most retweets or likes?

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    Is he doing this on purpose? He has to be right? What’s the end goal? Was his only goal to destroy Twitter? It’s fascinating

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    “According to a report published by popular research companies”

    I’d like to know to whom “popular research companies” refers, and by what means they’re measuring “losing 30% of users”.

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    Yeah I’ve stopped using Xwitter entirely. Musk is an idiot capitalist who ruins everything he touches.

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    I tried to use it to follow people in crypto but even many of those who stayed are now retweeting right wing conspiracy theories and anti science articles. Twitter is a disgusting hole of hate.

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      Wow, who would have thought that crypto people, the dumbest people on the entire Internet, would end up posting rw conspiracies.

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        Wow, who would have thought the mention of crypto would trigger some random moron to embarrass himself with some butthurt statement.

        I didn’t. I thought such people are not on lemmy yet. I was sadly wrong.

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          mention of crypto would trigger some random moron to embarrass himself

          the self fulfilling prophecy.

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          Funny when the 1 month old account remarks that to the 9 month old account.

          Hate to break it to you bub: the only places where the majority of people do not think cryptocurrencies are a scam, are crypto hangouts, and places where they haven’t heard about cryptos at all.

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            Great content guys, I learned a lot. (writes in notebook: “crypto…is…bad”)

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            Is it funny? Because generally for that to be funny, the account age would have to be linked somehow to credibility. I’m sure you are not stating that,because that would be incredibly stupid.

            Please “brake it to me” more. Explain how everyone thinks that. Maybe some study? Some survey? Explain it to me and then explain why I hell would I care? You have no idea how dumb you seem right now. Like some flat earth dumbass explaining how wrong everybody else is.

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              I apologise if I have offended you or made you doubt your worldview.

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    And they keep on trying to inflate the userbase with bot accounts whose bios are weird and mostly contain suspicious links, amd use those same bots to randomly like anyone’s new posts tweets.