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Feed: Technology | The Guardian
Title: Twitter usage in US ‘fallen by a fifth’ since Elon Musk’s takeover Author: Alex Hern UK technology editor
Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2024 13:41:59 -0400
Link: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/mar/26/twitter-usage-in-us-fallen-by-a-fifth-since-elon-musks-takeover

App users for social media site, rebranded as X, down by 23% since November 2022
according to Sensor Tower

Use of Twitter in the US has slumped by more than a fifth since Elon Musk bought
the site and rebranded it to X, according to data from app-monitoring company Sensor Tower.

As of February 2024, the social network’s daily app users in America had fallen
by 23% since November 2022, just after Musk completed his takeover[1]. Every other major social network experienced a reduction in the same period, but none by anywhere near X’s drop in user numbers.
Continue reading...[2]

Links:
[1]: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/oct/27/elon-musk-completes-twitter-takeover (link)
[2]: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/mar/26/twitter-usage-in-us-fallen-by-a-fifth-since-elon-musks-takeover (link)

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On 27 Mar 2024 03:08:58 GMT, Retrograde <[email protected]d>
wrote:

As of February 2024, the social network's daily app users in America had fallen
by 23% since November 2022, just after Musk completed his takeover[1]. Every >other major social network experienced a reduction in the same period, but none
by anywhere near X's drop in user numbers.

I know a number of Twitter users went to Post or bsky.social after
Musk's invasion. But they were just in their beginning stages of
growth.

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