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> Although widely agreed-upon figures for users and tweet volumes are harder to come by I mean come on, that data is not hard to find and it doesn't show any s

by seydor 4y ago

> Although widely agreed-upon figures for users and tweet volumes are harder to come by I mean come on, that data is not hard to find and it doesn't show any slump in users/usage https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&q=twitter https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&q=... TBH i don't think the wider audience of twitter noticed much after Musk bought it, but journalists definitely did

input_sh 4y ago
That doesn't tell you anything about actual usage, only how frequently people search for Twitter on Google. While Twitter was a public company there was an obligation to share the number of daily active users, so you can see the numbers compiled over time for example here: https://www.statista.com/statistics/970920/monetizable-daily-active-twitter-users-worldwide/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/970920/monetizable-daily... Since Musk took it private, there's no longer an obligation to share such data. Nobody outside Twitter knows how that number changed, we can only make somewhat educated guesses.
- londons_explore 4y ago
  Musk has publicly commented on there being a tweets per second record broken during the world cup at '24,400 tweets per second ... highest ever'[1] I doubt there can have been a large exodus of regular folk from twitter if that sort of thing is still happening. [1]: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1604520708570517504?lang=en https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1604520708570517504?lang...
  - officialchicken 4y ago
    Why wouldn't the influx of bots he was also complaining be able to achieve that number?
  - deleted 4y ago
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  - input_sh 4y ago
    That's Dec 18th, same date as France - Argentina finals in Qatar. I have no doubt Twitter usage increased during the World Cup, that would've happened with or without Musk. It's the most watched event in the world for a reason, especially the final game. I very much doubt numbers stayed even remotely the same after World Cup has ended.
rsynnott 4y ago
At best, from that Google Trends, all you can really say is that people are _more interested in news about Twitter_ than previously (which is frankly unsurprising); it tells you nothing about usage of Twitter one way or another.

by seydor 4y ago

input_sh 4y ago

That doesn't tell you anything about actual usage, only how frequently people search for Twitter on Google. While Twitter was a public company there was an obligation to share the number of daily active users, so you can see the numbers compiled over time for example here: https://www.statista.com/statistics/970920/monetizable-daily-active-twitter-users-worldwide/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/970920/monetizable-daily... Since Musk took it private, there's no longer an obligation to share such data. Nobody outside Twitter knows how that number changed, we can only make somewhat educated guesses.

londons_explore 4y ago
Musk has publicly commented on there being a tweets per second record broken during the world cup at '24,400 tweets per second ... highest ever'[1] I doubt there can have been a large exodus of regular folk from twitter if that sort of thing is still happening. [1]: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1604520708570517504?lang=en https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1604520708570517504?lang...
- officialchicken 4y ago
  Why wouldn't the influx of bots he was also complaining be able to achieve that number?
- deleted 4y ago
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- input_sh 4y ago
  That's Dec 18th, same date as France - Argentina finals in Qatar. I have no doubt Twitter usage increased during the World Cup, that would've happened with or without Musk. It's the most watched event in the world for a reason, especially the final game. I very much doubt numbers stayed even remotely the same after World Cup has ended.

rsynnott 4y ago

At best, from that Google Trends, all you can really say is that people are _more interested in news about Twitter_ than previously (which is frankly unsurprising); it tells you nothing about usage of Twitter one way or another.