Elon Musk's X is losing users in the U.S., UK, and EU. X's own data proves it.

It went down hill fast. The amount of right-wing propaganda skyrocketed ... weird

When I logged in about six weeks after the ownership change my feed included Elon Musk, Andrew Tate and 2-3 other right wing influencers. I follow none of these people, I have zero interest in what they have to say and I find them reprehensible. I deleted my account and haven't used the platform since.
- I stopped in today after months because my friend is launching a game and I wanted to give them a like and a comment. When I left Twitter my feed was just nerd shit and makers.
  
  When I logged in today it was several right wing advertisements at the top. When I went to search it was more Trump shit. I just wanted to support my indie friend. That's it for me.
- The only person I had blocked on Twitter before I deleted my account was Elon.
  
  I swear I couldn't be that annoying if I tried.
- I've never had a Twitter account, but this makes me want to create one just so I can quit
Weird how right wing content and popularity has an inverse square power law. Sooooo weird.
I wonder if the right-wing content actually has increased, or if it's just the ratio of it compared to left-wing content as much of the left has seemingly abandoned the platform.

My feed was almost entirely non-political to begin with, and personally, I've hardly noticed any difference, though the little politics that do get thru tend to indeed lean right.
- Maybe. I only use it to troll them now, so maybe I stepped on my own foot.
- I see equally amount both sides of I go looking. But I don’t go looking so I just see my industry related stuff and nothing political. I swear the level of fear momgering and exaggeration is wild.

Exactly as intended.

X-actly as intended.

FTFY
I don't think I'm tall enough for this ride, can I get off?

ARTISTS, JOURNALISTS, POLITICIANS, LEAVE TWITTER NOW, YOU IDIOTS

Sports journalists in particular — so annoying that all breaking NFL news goes through Xitter.
TAYLOR SWIFT WE NEED YOU! WHERE ARE YOU? DON'T LEAVE US WE NEED HELP!

This is obviously tounge in check but it feels closer to real than it should be.
- Taylor Swift moving to another platform would absolutely cause a massive crowd to follow. Maybe we'll see it happen one day.
You'll find that these professions have a vested interest in maintaining network effects, and as such will view Mast/Blue as threats to their networking infrastructure. They don't want to dilute the importance of the platform their patronage systems rely on (let alone destroy it) - in fact its centrality is why they leverage it to advance their careers. Artists I can see understanding platform agnosticism to some extent, but for the other two groups, it's simply not in their DNA. The gatekeeping is a feature for them.

'The medium is the message' as a Canadian theorist once said.

Anyone still on Twitter now is actively part of the problem

Uh, woah there. Why the extremeist view? I’m on there pretty actively for industry chatter. What’s the problem I’m a part of?
- Yeah some niche communities that have nothing to do with extremists or politics at all are only on Twitter/X unfortunately. For example, I am into domain name investing and all my domainer friends gather on X to discuss our latest acquisitions and sales. I've tried to get people to move to Mastodon, but it's difficult.
What's the problem?
- The right-wing extremism and misinformation if you were actually wondering
- Exactly. Don't use it, let others live.

I almost want to have used x, so I could quit using it and improve this statistic.

But I never did

I never used twitter but I deleted my account right after muskrat bought it.
- damn you beat me to it
Just sign up for bluesky and mastodon then. Become a statistic on that side.
- Im on Mastodon. Rarely use it because I'm no fan of the format (same reason I never got into Twitter). I do jump on and follow causes that I support that switch to it.
- That's not how it works. They already didn't use Twitter because it's not useful to them, why would they use a similar service now?

In X's EU user base report consisting of data from February to July 2023, Musk's social media platform had 112.2 million monthly active users in the EU. In the following six month period from August 2023 to January 2024, that number dropped to 111.4 million users.

That's a minuscule drop % wise

- If we can just get it to fail completely that'd be great, if that'll make him a non billionaire
X's most recent report, covering February to July 2024, showed that its user base in the EU fell once more to 105.9 million.

And these are datapoints they release themselves, 3rd party data points hint at bigger losses.
- You only need to hop on for 30s or so to realize why people wouldn't feel inclined to spend time there unless it to quickly bathe one's self in fascism and misinformation.
  
  Sort of what America will feel like if Elon gets his scummy hands on political power.
True, but we live in an economy that only rewards growth...
- It's even worse in social media, because most users that sign up stop using it at some point.
  
  So the product can die pretty quick if they don't generate new users, especially when they alienate old ones.
- You're assuming he gives a shit about how much profit it's making.
  
  It's not a public company, it's now his private playground to try to get millions of people to see only the "free speech" he wants them to see, and exert political influence.
Well, Elmo thought it was going to exceed 1 billion after 12-18 months.

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1596751751532937217
- I'd click on the link, but then I'd be contributing to the stats.
  
  I do remember seeing this tweet quoted on the Elon missed prediction tracker: https://elonmusk.today/
You are a MAU if you use the platform once a month by opening the app by mistake, and also if you doom scroll for 10 hours a day.

You continue to be one if you go from one to the other. Musk has been cherry picking stats before, so what they release will be the nicest numbers they can find.
- Yep. I’m in MAU numbers because I logged in twice this month to run Sky Follower Bridge. After the API debacle my average usage went from hours a day to zero minutes per day.
  
  Even with the most favourable, most meaningless statistic he can pull he still can’t show growth or even staying in place.
- Here is the data they are forced to report to the EU:
  
  Logged In X Users 61.8M Logged Out Guests 49.6M Total 111.4M
  
  https://transparency.x.com/en/reports/amars-in-the-eu/amars-in-the-eu-aug-24
  
  "Logged out Guests" is everyone who gets linked to a thread, who was send an video on Twitter and so on. And also take a look at the definition of the logged in users:
  
  EU Active Recipients of the Service - Average between August 1st 2023 - January 31 2024
  
  So you do count as active EU user if you have logged in between August and January with an IP address from the EU. That should even include some tourists.
I see you attended the same business school as Elon. Yeah, great observation: businesses hate growth, and want to see miniscule declines, it shows strength!!

September 25, 2024

Oof, that explains why I had a feeling that I read it before

Who cares about users when Nazi ceo is high on Russian bot army

These billionaire special snowflakes sure go through a lot of effort to build safe spaces for themselves

He's burning it to the ground to try to get Trump elected.

I'm hoping he can burn both to the ground
- There's been some reporting that Musk's Super PAC has been paying its workers so well that it's poached a bunch of the volunteers from the official campaign, and is so poorly run/audited that a lot of the workers are entering false data into the canvassing reports to qualify for bonuses. If that turns out to be true, then it will have been the case that Musk is burning his own money while hurting the Trump campaign.
  
  I'm not ready to call the race, but stories like this at least reassure me that for Republicans, they're not sending their best.

Great. Why are people still linking to x?

oh no!

anyway,

Concerning.

They’re still banning or driving away anyone outside of Musk’s echo chamber.

The vast majority of users are not big time contributors to the site’s quality content. But the content creators had the biggest targets on their back for retaliation. After so many bans over such a long period, there’s just less and less people to post quality content for the majority to consume.

Cracking down on narrative control doesn’t force the public to see things your way. It just drives them to other, more relevant platforms. Not sure how many times we need to go through this cycle for them to understand how futile this is.

Do you have evidence of this mass banning wave you’re referring to?

And in Mexico, Nicaragua, Honduras, Panama, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, and Buenos Aires, no es possible, nadie Vuela mas barato!

Anyone else that cannot read this article? When I try to scroll it just don't move..

No issues on android Firefox with ad blocker
- Always a good throw in to promote Firefox and adblockers. 😎

Any day now, Elon Musk’s X, formerly Twitter, will go down in flames. This will prove once and for all that Elon Musk is worthy of derision!

Threads is better 😁

X sucks, but Threads is even worse. 99% of everything I have ever seen on Threads is pure distilled engagement bait, and half the time expanding replies gets stuck loading. I wish I were exaggerating, but I’m not.
- 99% of everything I have ever seen on Threads is pure distilled engagement bait,
  
  That sounds exactly like XTwitter...