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Elon Musk hides X engagement figures amid user exodus (www.newsweek.com)

submitted 2 days ago by mesamunefire@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] arc@lemm.ee 17 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (2 children)

Over a million people joined Bluesky after the election and seem to be using it. Also a lot of news & media companies have moved over too. So I would assume that at least that many users have disappeared from X or their activity has diminished. On top of that all the bots have gone home now the election is over so the amount of activity must have suffered. And Bluesky is basically old Twitter so people are settling into it and liking it.

I would advise anyone who still using X to give it a try. And if they want to use X for whatever reason - uninstall the app, install Control Panel for Twitter into their mobile browser and browse that for a relatively bullshit free experience - no ads, no algorithmic lists, just what you subscribe to.

[–] P4ulin_Kbana@lemmy.eco.br 3 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

Should I try Bluesky even if I barely have used Xitter recently?

[–] arc@lemm.ee 3 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (1 children)

If you don't use Twitter then I don't see any reason to try Bluesky since it could basically be described as classic Twitter. But if you liked Twitter until it because a cesspit of far right shitheads, crypto bros, bots, and ads then give Bluesky a go.

[–] P4ulin_Kbana@lemmy.eco.br 1 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

No, no, I think you don't understand. /lh

What I meant by that is that I don't use it so often like most people do (2 hours a day or so), I mean like, opening once or twice every 1 or 2 weeks.

[–] lennivelkant@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 3 hours ago

My personal suggestion? Stop using Twatter.

Whether you move on to some other microblogging platform (like Bluesky or Mastodon) or just drop it entirely is a different question and depends on what content you care about. When you do check it, what do you check it for? Would you really miss that?

If it's specific accounts or personalities you care about, you could check if they have opened alternative accounts on those other platforms and let that inform your decision. If it's topics, I don't know enough about Bluesky's userbase to recommend it, but I know Mastodon's @FediFollows@social.growyourown.services has a bunch of topic-oriented curated lists.

[–] _stranger_@lemmy.world 1 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

Sure. There's not a lot of "bulk content" trash farms yet so it feels more real than even twitter did before the enXhittification.

[–] OldChicoAle@lemmy.world 2 points 21 hours ago

I'm loving it so far!!

[–] drmoose@lemmy.world 20 points 1 day ago (1 children)

All of the numbers are fake anyway. You can just sit there and f5 the page to get views on your own tweet lmao

[–] nutsack@lemmy.world 3 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

is this true Captain?

[–] drmoose@lemmy.world 5 points 20 hours ago

Yup just tried it again. Also basically anything counts as a view, scroll by the post, embedded tweet, scraper scraping the tweet. Almost every time the page is viewed by anyone or anything will bump the number even if it's repeated visit from the same viewer withing short time frame.

I guess it's kinda nice that it's simply transparent like that for admins but that's not what users expect - it's a useless metric and very easy to inflate.

I'm tempted to fire up a dozen android emulators with a refresh loop to see how far this can be pushed but I really don't want to have that shit platform on my mind longer than I have to tbh.

[–] Jeffool@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Wasn't adding engagement numbers to each tweet one of the first things he added? I remember thinking "who the fuck wants to see that?" But I guess to people like him that was important at the time? Huh.

[–] radicalautonomy@lemmy.world 2 points 20 hours ago

Drumpf is obsessed with rally size, skuM is obsessed with twitter engagement. Rotten tomatoh, decomposing tomahto.

[–] PetteriPano@lemmy.world 34 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I never really understood twitter. Feels to me like it's all about following personalities in a poor format that doesn't cater to discussion. I've had an account since early, mostly for testing twitter integrations for work. I haven't even bothered to log in for a couple of years.

I logged in yesterday just to deactivate my account.

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 2 points 21 hours ago

It scans if you look at it like short form blogging. Even YouTube runs under about the same operating theater. The comments are there but they have to beg / trick the viewers into engaging.

[–] can@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

I think it really only made sense to me when it was SMS social media.

Can't remember which phone I had but for something like this it was neat.

[–] inv3r510n@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

The last time I used Twitter was when I had ubertwitter for blackberry.

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[–] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 19 hours ago

musk copies feature from zuckerberg backed competitor, threads.

[–] umbraroze@lemmy.world 28 points 1 day ago

Elon Musk before: "Oh, these old Twitter executives were so dumb. When number go up, you've gotta show it everywhere!"

Elon Musk now: "Number not go up? For cripes sake, don't show it!"

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 75 points 2 days ago (18 children)

Trump won the election, this gereatric nepo baby will be well paid for his services

Twitters is a just a pokemon card for him and he used it well.

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[–] N0body@lemmy.dbzer0.com 147 points 2 days ago (5 children)

Nazi, who inherited his generational fortune through slave labor, makes people uncomfortable. They leave. Nazi lies about being weird and/or a Nazi.

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[–] timewarp@lemmy.world 172 points 2 days ago (1 children)

LOL... is he hiding cause of an exodus, or because of the bot farm he ran for the elections?

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[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 81 points 2 days ago (1 children)

don't look guys! I totally did not piss my pants!

-- Elon Musk

[–] P4ulin_Kbana@lemmy.eco.br 1 points 20 hours ago

That one 2 panel image of people laughing at a guy who pissed on his pants and he says: "huh. free marketing."

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