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I can't tell if you are being facetious, but that's not how spikes work. Just like Mastodon and threads, it's a temporary spike and will go back to its normal g

I can't tell if you are being facetious, but that's not how spikes work. Just like Mastodon and threads, it's a temporary spike and will go back to its normal growth in less than a week. I had several people I follow on Twitter make a grandiose speech about going to Mastodon after musk bought Twitter, but almost all of them came back because nobody uses it. The ones that didn't come back have less than 5% of the followers they used to have.

blitzar 2y ago
> have less than 5% of the followers they used to have Human value ranked by number of social media followers, what a sad world we live in.
- worstspotgain 2y ago
  I would take the 'Twitter isn't dying' posts with a grain of salt. Of course the same can be said about the 'Twitter is already dead' narrative. The latter isn't being pushed by a large PR operation, though.
rsynnott 2y ago
> The ones that didn't come back have less than 5% of the followers they used to have. Well, first of all, I mean, who cares, honestly, how many followers one has? But also 5% does sound weirdly low. I think I had about a thousand followers on Twitter, which I was on from 2007 to 2022; I've been on Mastodon since 2022 and appear to have 300 there. Overall, for me, Mastodon's worked out fairly well; it feels rather like noughties-era twitter. YMMV, of course.