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Twitter's lost 13% of its daily users and its rebrand has failed (www.bigtechnology.com)

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The new data — comprehensive and definitive — should put to rest the countervailing narratives over Musk’s management of the app. Under his stewardship, X’s daily user base has declined from an estimated 140 million users to 121 million, with a widening gap between people who check the app daily vs. monthly. X’s remaining daily users are engaged similarly as before. But the pool is shrinking. Apptopia pulls its data from more than 100,000 apps on iOS and Android, along with publicly available sources.

So apparently it lost only 13% of daily users? Thats a smaller number than I thought. Still bad news for Twitter though.

On the other hand, it shows the power of content creators and niche communities. I used less Twitter but cannot delete it because it is literally how I connect with my niche community on there.

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[-] dan@upvote.au 22 points 2 years ago

Reddit and Lemmy are definitely social media. A subreddit or Lemmy community is effectively the same idea as a Facebook group, just with pseudonyms.

[-] anachronist@midwest.social 6 points 2 years ago

The quantifiably different thing about lemmy is nobody is trying to trap you in a skinner box.

[-] Rambi@lemm.ee 9 points 2 years ago

I mean it kind of ends up being a Skinner box anyway just because of the loop of scrolling, seeing a post, looking at it and repeating. But I agree nobody is actively trying to trap you in one.

[-] snowe@programming.dev 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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[-] dan@upvote.au 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Social media has always excluded forum like sites.

So are you saying that Facebook Groups aren't social media either? That's a forum like site. Tumblr isn't social media either?

This is Merriam-Webster's definition of social media:

forms of electronic communication (such as websites for social networking and microblogging) through which users create online communities to share information, ideas, personal messages, and other content (such as videos)

This is Cambridge's:

websites and computer programs that allow people to communicate and share information on the internet using a computer or cell phone

Lemmy and Reddit both fall under these definitions.

Reddit technically added followers, but you cannot see nor interact with them,

Not sure what you mean by this... Reddit has had chats and PMs for a long time.

It most definitely does not include anonymous sites

Neither Lemmy nor Reddit are anonymous. They're pseudonymous. Something like 4chan where you don't even need an account is anonymous.

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