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"Shrank site traffic by 80%, yielding cost savings and cratering the company as a whole" I hope everyone there is getting paid in advance for their work...
by outside1234 3y ago
"Shrank site traffic by 80%, yielding cost savings and cratering the company as a whole"
I hope everyone there is getting paid in advance for their work...
- tymekpavel 3y agoI’m curious if you have a source for that? There has been lots of speculation on how much X traffic has reduced, but the best data I can find basically says that it might’ve dropped from the 2nd most visited website to the 5th most visited website in the world (according to SimilarWeb).
- kenjackson 3y agoThe numbers I see are declines in traffic of 15-20% with ad revenue declines of more than 50%. https://variety.com/2023/digital/news/musk-twitter-x-acquisition-one-year-user-revenue-decline-1235770297/ https://variety.com/2023/digital/news/musk-twitter-x-acquisi... I think for many sites this would be pretty horrible. I feel like the bar for X is that it still runs.
- yoav 3y agoThey did this by shipping so many bugs (that I’ve seen) that the feeds only load 20% of the time. Saves a ton of bandwidth i bet.