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Canceling third party clients and the antics, as well as the bad management of Musk is what people drives away from Twitter not the reliability.

• kfrzcode 4y ago
  And yet, Twitter remains quite popular
  • romwell 4y ago
    So did digg.com for some time after the redesign.
    • celticninja 4y ago
      digg.com, noe that's a name I haven't heard in a long time
      • kfrzcode 4y ago
        zombo.com !
  • nla 4y ago
    I like to separate my politics from my technology.
• next_xibalba 4y ago
  Has Twitter’s usage declined? I’ve seen a lot of opinions like this but they seem to be motivated reasoning and/or summarization of the views of a small echo chamber, but not based on actual data. I would guess most users of social media (and products/services for that matter) are not too concerned with antics of the owners.
  • chii 4y ago
    i've seen a wave of people looking to migrate to masterdon or some alternative, but those messages have slowed, and those who have "migrated" haven't stopped tweeting on twitter either. The network effect is real, so without substantial change, twitter is still the best platform for tweeting.
  • slg 4y ago
    Twitter is a worse experience for me today than it was before Musk purchased the company. I don't need to even be aware of his antics for that to be true. Killing Tweetbot is the biggest issue for me. The official iOS app is awful so now I never check Twitter from my phone. Plus my timeline isn't as interesting because lots of people I follow simply stopped posting. Maybe they left due to Musk's antics, but it makes my experience worse even if I don't care about Musk. It seems pretty inarguable that some people are using the site less. I'm one. In order for overall usage to remain the same, there needs to be people making up for that. Do these people exist? Who is using the site more because of Musk? I'm honestly not sure, because if they do exist, I don't follow them.
    • kolbe 4y ago
      Is there a single major service from a Silicon Valley internet company that doesn't get worse by the year? They all loss lead for years and years, then try to diminish the experience for profit in late stages.
    • margorczynski 4y ago
      This anecdote is the answer to the lack of data that would support the user count decline of Twitter? I'm sorry to damage your ego but you're just a single data point and extrapolating how you see things to a non-quantifiable amount of other users isn't a reasonable argument.
      • slg 4y ago
        I didn't say it was an answer to a lack of data. That was the reason I asked for anecdotal data that runs counter to my experience. No one outside of Twitter is going to have actual data on this and I'm not sure if we should even trust any data coming out of Twitter at this point considering Musk's reputation. And for the record, that anecdote is not a single data point. It is a single statement based off my observations of the hundreds of accounts I follow. My timeline is less active. That isn't because I use the site less. It is because cumulatively the accounts I follow are using the site less.
    • lmm 4y ago
  • input_sh 4y ago
    > Has Twitter’s usage declined? Literally nobody outside of Twitter knows. As it's no longer a public company, they're under no obligation to share any metrics. My guess would be it increased until the end of 2022 (people were interested in how it's gonna turn out and more importantly World Cup was happening), but I'd be shocked if the usage didn't drop dramatically as 2023 rolled in.
    • noncoml 4y ago
      Sample of one confirming your theory. I created an account and start using it to follow Musk as I thought he was some evil genius and loved to follow him and hate him. I lost interest after a while when I realised he is of average intelligence with lots of emotional issues and just a crazy amount of money. Haven’t logged in to Twitter for more than a couple of months now. Must not forget to delete my account at some point.
    • suddenclarity 4y ago
      Interestingly Musk made it more transparent by introducing view count to every tweet so a simple solution might be to gather stats for the top 1000 users and each new tweet after 48 hours or so. Combine it into a trendline going forward. Under the assumption that the numbers are real but considering how many people that hate him, it would be a bold move to fake them and not expect to get caught.
  • ropable 4y ago
    I don't have any hard metrics to prove it, but most notable people in InfoSec (that I follow, anyway) moved off Twitter to infosec.exchange late last year. It's probably the case that individual "communities" of Twitter users have migrated off the site to a greater or lesser extent.
• paulpauper 4y ago
  Twitter has put up those huge, ugly picture ads on comment and search feeds. Those ads are everywhere now. I think they risk annoying users with too many ads.
• dobs_bob 4y ago
  Not to mention Musk just being a ghoul in general. Mocking the disabled is something I can't let go.
  • billfor 4y ago
    Did he know the person was disabled when he made the comment?
    • dekhn 4y ago
      Yes but it doesn't matter.
    • jdasinger 4y ago
      Yes
    • salad-tycoon 4y ago
      He said no. He said he wasn’t aware of all the information and also had been given some incorrect information on top of that. He tweeted this, of course and met to apologize and order to keep him on. So no, not yes.
• thrown123098 4y ago
  Also things reddit has been doing for a decade.