You didnt verify shit the only people who know the real number of twitter users is twitter and even that is up for debate given the prevelance of bot accounts. And its in their best interests to lie about the numbers.
And yes i do get to forecast its downfall, people are jumping off soon as their primary usecase is supported by other platforms, advertisers are leaving etc etc etc. its essentially a fascist hell hole walking at this point kept alive via funding by a fascist billionaires.
What i dont get to predict is the timeline because that is unknowable since it depends on a bunch of individuals finally pulling the trigger and that can take years even after a person decides to disassociate from the platform. Each individual having different thresholds for jumping ship etc. but as more and more people leave the faster the rest will follow.
The only thing keeping it relevant at this point is political news and that’ll disappear soon as another platform get sufficient reach.
Yeah, that’s what the word “proxy” means up there. I don’t need to get any of this data from Twitter directly to know which direction the number is going and where it is relative to previous years. It’s not moving the way you think it’s moving. And the numbers work with any number of bots because the size differences are so big that even going with the larger estimates where 3/4 of all of the damn thing is all bots it’s still several times larger than either BS or Masto, or even both put together.
Look, it’s okay to live in a vibes-driven world, I suppose. I can’t force you out of it. But maaaan, does it get in the way of having a normal conversation with someone else about a real thing that happens in the real world where we both need to agree on some semblance of reality.
I’m not even that angry that you are in denial about it, weirdly, but it’s mildly alarming and it makes this entire conversation retroactively feel like a massive waste of time.
You didnt verify shit the only people who know the real number of twitter users is twitter and even that is up for debate given the prevelance of bot accounts. And its in their best interests to lie about the numbers.
And yes i do get to forecast its downfall, people are jumping off soon as their primary usecase is supported by other platforms, advertisers are leaving etc etc etc. its essentially a fascist hell hole walking at this point kept alive via funding by a fascist billionaires.
What i dont get to predict is the timeline because that is unknowable since it depends on a bunch of individuals finally pulling the trigger and that can take years even after a person decides to disassociate from the platform. Each individual having different thresholds for jumping ship etc. but as more and more people leave the faster the rest will follow.
The only thing keeping it relevant at this point is political news and that’ll disappear soon as another platform get sufficient reach.
Yeah, that’s what the word “proxy” means up there. I don’t need to get any of this data from Twitter directly to know which direction the number is going and where it is relative to previous years. It’s not moving the way you think it’s moving. And the numbers work with any number of bots because the size differences are so big that even going with the larger estimates where 3/4 of all of the damn thing is all bots it’s still several times larger than either BS or Masto, or even both put together.
Look, it’s okay to live in a vibes-driven world, I suppose. I can’t force you out of it. But maaaan, does it get in the way of having a normal conversation with someone else about a real thing that happens in the real world where we both need to agree on some semblance of reality.
I’m not even that angry that you are in denial about it, weirdly, but it’s mildly alarming and it makes this entire conversation retroactively feel like a massive waste of time.