I’ve seen a lot of opinions like this but they seem to be motivated reasoning and/or summarization of the views of a small echo chamber, but not based on actual data.
I would guess most users of social media (and products/services for that matter) are not too concerned with antics of the owners.
It seems pretty inarguable that some people are using the site less. I'm one. In order for overall usage to remain the same, there needs to be people making up for that. Do these people exist? Who is using the site more because of Musk? I'm honestly not sure, because if they do exist, I don't follow them.
And for the record, that anecdote is not a single data point. It is a single statement based off my observations of the hundreds of accounts I follow. My timeline is less active. That isn't because I use the site less. It is because cumulatively the accounts I follow are using the site less.
I'm using the site more now. Japanese twitter feels a lot more natural and nicer than it did pre-Musk.
Personally, I don't use twitter because I don't like it - and the recent changes make me dislike twitter even more than I did before. I wish more people would walk the walk when they talk the talk. Heheh.
I like reddit because it's like a very popular forum with subforums on gazillions of different topics, and there's a lot of stuff I enjoy on there because of that.
I don't understand how using reddit vs twitter is a political decision (in most use cases). They are completely different tools.
Ironically, probably musk haters.
I had a coworkers who probably despised Trump as much as Hitler, but she literally couldn't stop herself from doom scrolling his twitter account.
You don't need to make the app better to get more users, just increase engagement even if it's through the power of contempt. Just look at news channels that are always trying to make people angry.
Literally nobody outside of Twitter knows. As it's no longer a public company, they're under no obligation to share any metrics.
My guess would be it increased until the end of 2022 (people were interested in how it's gonna turn out and more importantly World Cup was happening), but I'd be shocked if the usage didn't drop dramatically as 2023 rolled in.
I lost interest after a while when I realised he is of average intelligence with lots of emotional issues and just a crazy amount of money.
Haven’t logged in to Twitter for more than a couple of months now. Must not forget to delete my account at some point.
The network effect is real, so without substantial change, twitter is still the best platform for tweeting.
