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Fewer people are using Elon Musk's X as the platform struggles to attract users
- AnimalMuppet 3y agoNumber of people using X daily is down 18% in a year, and 23% in a year and a half.
- sidibe 3y agoBut my follower count keeps going up even though I'm not using it. Young women seem to be flocking to X.
- 2devnull 3y agoI wonder if the 23% were largely bots? If so that may be why the experience feels better despite the metrics? (The people I follow, Paul Graham and others, seem as active now as before. Maybe daily active users isn’t a thing to maximize?)
- pestatije 3y agoevery day i get a new follower or two which consistently have 50~70 following and 1000~1200 followers themselves (clearly bots)
- Arnt 3y agoThe way they collect data seems fairly unlikely to count bots: "a panel of consumers who provide access to their information in exchange for the use of other apps, including apps that track screen time." I assume that both numbers were counted in the same way.
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- xenospn 3y agoI was an active daily user with a good community and some fairly valuable followers, but I logged out in October and never checked it again. Same with Facebook - feels like nothing of value was lost.