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Brendel@brendelbored.bsky.social |
Some people in the replies are going “jeez only 30%?” and it’s like do you know how hard it is to lose 30% of an entire giant business solely because the owner is an annoying doofus?
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shenanigans
@ceaselessinsea.bsky.social
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Especially a habit-forming business!
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I'mNotAHRHitter
@imnotahrhitter.bsky.social
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Even the XBox 360 Red Ring of Death didn't kill their brand like he has killed Twitter
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causerie
@causerie.bsky.social
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And that's AFTER the deluge of "p*ssy in bio" bots.
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Patrick Ogle
@paogle.bsky.social
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My usage dropped 100 percent. And since half of twitter is bots 30 percent is really high.
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Mateus Auri
@mateusauri.bsky.social
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If you offset that by the rampantly increased bot activity, it must have lost way more than 30% of its human userbase
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🚗car downloader🚗
@wouldnt.download-a-car.zip
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well now we do, and knowing is 30% of the battle
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A Grapefruit's Suicide Note Left Out in the Rain
@axleblaze.bsky.social
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Still feels low given how much worse that site is to the degree that people like me, who are determined to stay there like an old man that won't abandon his home in a disaster movie, are starting to second guess how worth it is to stick around
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Ric Steinberger
@ricst.bsky.social
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30% down 70% to go
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*Bratan*
@mazov.bsky.social
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70% of those left are bots
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Time Being
@ssn-256-43-1893.bsky.social
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It's actually pretty easy if the entire valuation of your company is based around public opinion and not any actual assets.
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Alex
@theunorthodox.bsky.social
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That’s the nicest thing anyone could possibly call him
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David Bailey
@drgdave.bsky.social
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Okay, but there's ALSO the fact that Xitter is crawling with Nazis. Oh yeah --- maybe, like, 70% of the normies left, but 40% of them were replaced by Nazis. I could believe that.
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TORHusky
@torhusky.queerdog.club
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That 30% is a lot more damning when you add in the reports of how many active accounts are just bots
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Gremins 2: The New B*tch
@risibledog.bsky.social
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Krysz
@edwoodk.bsky.social
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I’m missing the time when he was only an annoying doofus. Now he’s just toxic and dull.
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Marcy 🌈
@vickivampiress.bsky.social
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Literally Muskrat after buying Twitter. Dude's a moron.
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AllenBaylus.bsky.social
@allenbaylus.bsky.social
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Went from a power user to abandoning it when I went on vacation in August. I can go to sites which I don’t agree with management but I can not square myself with this type of hate and propaganda.
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AllenBaylus.bsky.social
@allenbaylus.bsky.social
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Has lord Elon solved the Bot issue?
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RealChefShannon
@realchefshannon.bsky.social
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I’m included in that 30% loss and Twitter was THE ONLY social media account I had.
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Terraformer
@terraformer.bsky.social
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i'm so tired of super-rich, unloved grown men bogarting our collective attention
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Nargagoober
@nargagoober.bsky.social
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But Elon is a wholesome doge coin eco friendly Tesla mars to the moon heccin doggo
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Kristine Simon 🍀
@kristinesimon.bsky.social
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Makes me sad 😞 and I’m glad I found BlueSky get me through
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Raphael Holm
@raphholm.bsky.social
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Honestly should be like 70% of users leaving, really dont like that social media platform
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hammancheez
@hammancheez.bsky.social
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30% of users and 95% of advertisers
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will
@willkeats.bsky.social
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knowing Forbes & Elon’s history of lying, it’s probably a bit more than that
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DavidNelsonNM
@davidnelsonnm.bsky.social
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I know. Company I worked for got bought by Rick Scott’s Columbia/HCA just months before they got busted for fraud. We were never HCA - they didn’t know what to do with us - but no matter. Lost >50% business in a year. Course, this is more fraudulent annoying doofus. Still hate that jerk.
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@adofcle.bsky.social
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Y’all stay on this man sack.
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Kari G Elliott
@kbyrd.bsky.social
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Inertia is a problem. I work for a govt dept with an account on X (they all do) and I've talked to comms about having policies to decide when a platform is too crazy. But they stay because they've had an account for years.
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Semi-Interesting Photography, etc.
@remid0d0s0.bsky.social
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Needs moar bots! Moar bots! Moar bots!
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Luke Garrett
@lukegarrett.bsky.social
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Yeah, but the owner has been working his ass off at being an annoying doofus. I think he can beat 30%.
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MarwanEichelsMD
@monewsdaily.bsky.social
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It was and is a platform full of fakes. The user numbers are not and were not real.
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Confirmed Professional Agitator
@mumbly-joe.bsky.social
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Sears managed it
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Stirling Matheson
@szmatheson.bsky.social
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Normally only local restaurant owners with public Facebook profiles can do that to a business.
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Darbbeard
@darbbeard.bsky.social
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He’s now providing his political opinion daily. Another reason to be on Bluesky!
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Jen in Dallas
@j3nindallas.bsky.social
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I had thirty THOUSAND tweets. Deleted my account about a year ago. Don't miss it.
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Alzamon || アルサもン
@alzamon.art
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As for the account I still hold there because reasons (and not related to this one at all) that remaining 70% are most likely crypto hustlers, MAGA freaks, AI bots and masochists. 🥹
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Flakey Foont
@flakyfoont.bsky.social
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aw
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Mighty Apollo
@mightyapollo.bsky.social
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And I bet that 30% is a disproportionate amount of non troll/bot users.
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runehog
@runehog.bsky.social
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and you just know they're doin' the netflix double-eye-count trick
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ljohn44
@ljohn44.bsky.social
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Did they also take into account the enormous amount of bots that have flooded in? I'm sure that's quite an eye popping number.
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Maura Hubbell
@sistawendy.bsky.social
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I just hope all the work visa hostages who still work for Xitter come up with an exit strategy before they need it.
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Blurry Cat Face
@therealbcf.bsky.social
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getting 70% on an exam is not very impressive
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busco quadnary
@imaghost.ooo
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considering the platform was always just like, 60% made up of people who tweet about one sport
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Woj
@swojack.bsky.social
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30 percent has to equal unstoppable death spiral in the social media business. How much engagement did MySpace bleed before they were just living out their final hours? This product is basically all about being in the cool place to hang and I don't know if that's a thing that can be reclaimed.
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Starlit_Stella
@starlilstella.bsky.social
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maybe the Nazis, Trolls, Bots, Racists, Traitors, Seditionists, angry, Ignorant poorly educated Science & Fact hating Christian Nationalists, terrorist organizations, & Pedophiles he allows to run amok w/ no moderation on his platform might have soured the X experience for the rest of Sane America
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Jimmy (Ø) Jim (Ø) James
@jimmyjimjames.bsky.social
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to lose 30% of business that people invested 10 Years of network effects into, is significant to lose only 30% because the owner is a Nazi sympathizer, is disappointing
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@jasonst.bsky.social
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It's cool. I'm sure he's just replaced everyone with bots.
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Not Important
@suntitle.bsky.social
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im 0.00001% of that. #ClownMath
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Coach Finstock
@coachfinstock.bsky.social
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People comment on how much tax is taken out of each paycheck and they don't think 30% of something is a lot? Lol
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@timmis.bsky.social
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Also, that’s net 30% down inclusive of the big influx of Nazis and pussy-in-bio bots. Actual human use has to be down over 50%
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olivia june ❤️💀
@fixurheartordie.bsky.social
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I’m honestly hoping they pull the trigger on basic accounts costing 10 cents a month or whatever just to find out how far off the rails this whole thing can get
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John Poulos
@jpoulos.bsky.social
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Consider too how much of that traffic is bots that will never go away.
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Craig Walmsley
@craigwalmsley.bsky.social
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Not that hard, evidently.
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Dinant@Bluesky
@dinant.bsky.social
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I report every Elon advertisement. Just to keep them busy
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Nick
@nwbvt.bsky.social
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Well the good news is that their costs should be down after most employees quit.
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Eli Sarver
@lowmagnet.bsky.social
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apparently, it's actually easy if you put it that way
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@jakedotworld.bsky.social
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The entire SaaS platform is mortally dependent on user growth. Oftentimes having low or no growth is a kiss of death; a recognizable brand losing 30% of the userbase is nearly unthinkable. Catastrophic.
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Shawn
@shawnisstilltired.bsky.social
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Or strange moderation choices. I got banned last year for sharing like a 3 second clip of the film Charlie Wilson’s War in rhetorical support of Ukraine.
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darko barsoomian
@darkoverlordofdata.bsky.social
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Overachiever.
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Rye! @ AC 💚🏳️🌈
@ryedog.bsky.social
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Wasn't there some talk eons ago that a decline in the value of the product might make the lenders angsty, when is enough gonna be enough
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Paul Davidson
@inquisitivebible.bsky.social
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The flip side is that this is a growth period for digital platforms. Reddit and YouTube are booming. Under sane management, Twitter would be up 50% instead of down 30%.
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AndyK250.gb
@andyk250.bsky.social
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Does that 30% loss also account for the massive uptick in bot activity and accounts? If it doesn't, I'd imagine the loss is closer to 50%.
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Duke The Wolf 🇺🇦🇵🇸
@dukewolf.bsky.social
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As a former X user I would say that is illegal
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LOREM OPOSSUM - Coward of Technology
@plaguedaemonart.bsky.social
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Some twitter use has increased (bots, nazis)
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Tagger
@tgscenic.bsky.social
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Bahahaha. Good keep going
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@stpetedave.bsky.social
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It used to be my only social media, but when he turned the maga monkeys loose, it became unusable. It’s not good for anyone to have a steady diet of negativity and alienation.
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Musketeer
@musketeerfox.bsky.social
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There's also the fact that bot and scammer activity is WAY up, which will skew the results.
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John Tyrrell
@cjohnt.bsky.social
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Based on a telephone survey? Much as I'd like to believe the statistics, I'll give them as much credence as the numbers from Musk and Yaccarino
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@brushimp.bsky.social
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That is roughly 1 in three people leaving cause one person let an annoying fart in the room. This is actually really messed up beyond belief. This one man made the environment of the website hostile.
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AM (Amber Mitchell)
@thisisam.bsky.social
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Seriously!
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Pixel Pushers Union 512
@ppu512.bsky.social
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That's a shitload.
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Cranky David
@cranky-david.bsky.social
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i mean, musk can't create and maintain enough sockpuppets on his own to keep the site afloat can he? even with his ketamine habit he has to sleep sometime.
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Matt
@segm09.bsky.social
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Pretty sure most companies don't even bother firing the CEO if usage drops that much, they sacrifice them appease the gods
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Conor Conneally
@ernekid.bsky.social
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Also this was a ‘telephone survey’ so they only surveyed the absolute psychopaths who answer their phones to unknown numbers
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@calizaybak.bsky.social
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I say that because I want it to be 100% but still, it's a nice thing to end the week on.
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@gamer87animations.bsky.social
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Elon musk has to stop posting clickbait memes of him thinking he’s better than everyone else
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Alex
@thatsrite.bsky.social
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Also the amount of bot usage has gone up exponentially which has offset some of the lost genuine human usage
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Bob Q!
@robotjq.bsky.social
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I'm pretty sure it's 70%. That 40% delta is chatGPT bots talking to each other.
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Chris
@phalanx1127.bsky.social
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I left X for this. Not missing X.
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Sycaid
@sycaid.bsky.social
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I'm part of that 30%. I deleted my account the day he took over. Never looked back and I refuse to call it anything else but Twitter because "X" makes it sound like a drug or porn site (that one is kinda accurate though, tbh) and just straight unimaginative.
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Iolo
@ioloj.bsky.social
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X is the most important platform for everything. Musk knew this and then destroyed it. X should be like Wikipedia.
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Tony in ‘t Veld-Brown
@tonyivb.bsky.social
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Elon: Dammit, I was aiming for 31% just so I can report the percentage remaining.
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squeezly
@squeezly.bsky.social
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That's just usage, the ad impressions are worth less, too
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John Hoskinson
@johnhoskinson.bsky.social
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It would be more but a lot of the people surprised that it’s not more are still active on there because of addiction to their (mostly) bot followers feeding them precious likes
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💀 0llyMelancholy
@0llymelancholy.com
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They also aren't taking in the snowball effect; every person from that third of users who left makes staying feel even worse for those remaining, so more will leave, creating a virtuous cycle of defectors. Love it. The world doesn't need Twi- uh, ""X"" anymore. Cross it out like its name implies.
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In Da' Indica!
@indaindica.bsky.social
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That. And the NAZIs. And the endless disinformation and Christian nationalist propaganda. And millions of online stores with blue checks. And the 'AI model' accounts. There was a large decrease in Twitter's usability, in addition to the knob that runs it. 30% seems low.
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Jade Cargill stan account 🍉🇺🇦🇺🇸
@adaytaramember.bsky.social
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Soccer equivalent of three own-goals in one game
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so normal. sooooo normal. im normal.
@xxoxx.bsky.social
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> Forbes it's over
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Jarylan - Egg - Best Boy Wife - Slava Ukraini
@jarylan.bsky.social
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I mean, Musk makes it look very easy.
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The stars are just old lights, I can see them falling down
@oldlights.bsky.social
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Those feel like levels that would torpedo any company besides a vanity project by Earth's richest little man child.
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A Sentient Pile of Spaghetti
@spagritty.bsky.social
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i've tried to get people to move, but all my sports follows are finding the other apps don't work for breaking news and stuff. it will take time for every use case to find an alternative.
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Jules of the Guadiana
@julesofguadiana.bsky.social
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Throwing something out there but this 30% figure is despite the fact that he's stonewalling any and every insight by qualified orgs to scrutinize the site's metrics. I bet that percentage is even higher
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