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60k people deactivated their X accounts on average each day in one week alone

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Re: 60k people deactivated their X accounts on average each day in one week alone

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Post by londons_explore »

dredmorbius wrote: post #17
londons_explore wrote: post #8

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X does seem to report stats like this to the public. https://x.com/XData/ Obviously there is probably a decent amount of cherry picking of the stats to report.

I'm genuinely curious as to what if any disclosures, and possible business requirements / fraud risks, are presented by not having such disclosures for an advertising-supported business. Virtually any significant publishing platform has a press kit detailing circulation or equivalent numbers, which are in most cases publicly available, so far as I'm aware. I'm not finding a definitive statement as to whether or not t…

Most advertisers care about what ROI they'd get for their particular business.

And the easiest way to determine that is with a test campaign of just a few hundred dollars. Most platforms even give you "free credits" to do exactly that (in many businesses, a few hundred dollars can be a big barrier, because the employee doesn't want to put it on their personal credit card, yet getting the paperwork in place to go through the accounts department is a lot of work).

That means the platform-wide stats don't really matter. What matters is how cheaply the platform can get the right ads in front of the right eyeballs who will click through and buy a product.

How well the platform can attribute purchases is a big part of it too. Thats why people like youtube have "Which of these companies have you heard of? A. Amazon, B. Gucci, C. Flambaths" surveys - because that's their way to measure (and charge for!) brand adverts which don't lead to direct sales.

Re: 60k people deactivated their X accounts on average each day in one week alone

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Post by verdverm »

mrangle wrote: post #39
yyuugg wrote: post #26

X, as a platform, is absolutely cooked. I'm sure it will remain around the same way Truth social is around. A small group of right wing folks will hang out there and argue to their last breath that it's more free speech or something, but increasingly having an X account will be seen as kind of a weird trait. It'll make for some interesting stories a decade from now when we'll all reminisce about "remember how Musk fu…

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> wildly popular

It's not even in the top 10 and shrinking too

Re: 60k people deactivated their X accounts on average each day in one week alone

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Post by mrangle »

rsynnott wrote: post #43
mrangle wrote: post #33

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It's not difficult to ignore people. There are still a lot of (bluecheck) Leftists on X, and people successfully practice ignoring their version of terrible posting just as much as can be done in the other direction. Looking forward to monitoring the "death of twitter" and the victory of bluesky.

The way that Twitter currently ranks replies, all the top replies will be from blueticks, and thus generally low-quality nonsense or outright spam (a lot of people seem to be using it for self-promotion, which is perhaps unsurprising given the nature of pay-for-attention). For a post with any significant engagement, this makes ignoring them a lot of work. Many people may find a platform where this isn't a thing attra…

Lots of people will variously find any one platform unusable, at any given point. That you and others find X unusable isn't remarkable.

For every person that mirrors your sentiment, there is someone who doesn't. And then the same would hold for your opinion about the relative usability of other platforms.

It's unclear to me why you'd expect "people" (in quotes bc using that word to encompass everyone is strange in this context) to not use X and to be more approving of other platforms.

Last, its unlikely that any platform that primarily exists as a response to another platform will ever have a primary use as anything else. For example, Bluesky's future is likely only to be as a protest platform contra X. This is its identity that it will have difficulty shedding.

Re: 60k people deactivated their X accounts on average each day in one week alone

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Post by mrangle »

yyuugg wrote: post #40
mrangle wrote: post #39

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I talk about MySpace and Digg regularly, they are unpopular, and they are the exact thing happening here. I think we're in the interregnum period between X and whatever picks up the crown.

Those aren't remotely comparable platforms.

There isn't anything that currently exists to "pick up the crown" which itself doesn't identify in-full as a reaction to X.

There's nothing in the human social-sphere that has become dominant by defining itself as a reaction to something else.

That's first assuming that it'd overcome the second-to-market popularity issue.

Re: 60k people deactivated their X accounts on average each day in one week alone

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Post by mrangle »

yyuugg wrote: post #41
mrangle wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's not difficult to ignore people. There are still a lot of (bluecheck) Leftists on X, and people successfully practice ignoring their version of terrible posting just as much as can be done in the other direction. Looking forward to monitoring the "death of twitter" and the victory of bluesky.

I'd be shocked to see a leftist still on Twitter, tbh. I'm sure there are plenty of Liberals, but I doubt there are many Leftists.

There are masses of Leftists on X. Recently all seemingly intent on placing themselves on all manner of watchlist via psychotically celebrating and supporting the murder of a CEO, utilizing the logic of people with actual brain damage.

I'm sure that Bluesky was having a normal one!

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