I’m happy to say I’ve not used Twitter since they killed third party apps. Same reason I stopped using Reddit. Many other issues contributed, but in both cases the third party app situation was the breaking point.
this post was submitted on 10 Sep 2023
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Y'know, I had a love/hate relationship to twitter in the before-elon times.
On the one hand, it was a strange, toxic brew of hellish nonsense and porn On the other hand, there was a critical mass of engaged experts on lots of subjects, weighing in on current events in near-real-time.
It was like having the history faculty of several colleges on hand when historical questions came up, but in order to get their takes on anything you'd have to wade through trolls and bots and fascist sycophants to get there.
I'm a sucker for learning things and I'll put up with a lot for the pleasure of feeding my brain but by the time Elon took the reigns the signal:noise ratios had gone too far negative to be worth it.
I'm one of them!
o7 Thank you for your service!
Well, I'm obviously a fediverse user now. Mastodon.world answered donation needs too!
70% to go!!
I am a Twitter "user" in the sense that I read the site for a few minutes every few days to see the latest news or drama.
Recently all the Elon drama is boring. So I'm in that decreased user count.
I believe in us. We can bring that number to 60% or higher by the end of this year, if we all do our part.
I uninstalled the app after the rebrand. Twitter bird used occasionally, X app sat there looking like a porn app so I uninstalled.
Musk: "Totally intentional, everyone. This is exactly what I planned for. I am, however, going to sue the US Government for allowing freedom of the press to report it."
Where did they go to though? Mastodon hasn't seen any significant growth since the last spike.
Probably no where. They likely just left Twitter and carried on with whatever else they were doing.
For anyone that’s curious of day to day trends, this account makes a post every hour for new signups per hour/day/week. It’s pretty neat.
Seems to hover around 20,000 new signups per week, and I’ve seen it hit 50,000 during these times when Twitter kicks itself in the nuts.
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