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Traffic is up on X 22% YoY

Not quite death, but certainly agree about news outlets no longer seeing it as okay to say that “The internet is freaking out about X”

https://advanced-television.com/2023/12/18/research-x-twitte...

>Using the data available on Google Trends as well as SEO tool Ahrefs, domain and hosting provider Fasthosts investigated the online presence of X since the announcement of Musk’s takeover and his official purchase of the platform, just over one year on from his taking of the reins.

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Man, those are some terrible statistics... 142.86% of nothing is still nothing.

   For starters, searches for just the term ‘X’ have increased by 19.4 per cent, 
   while searches for ‘Twitter’ have fallen by 26 per cent in the same period. 
   While plenty of peopke still refer to X as its former title and news outlets 
   still often follow mentions of X with “formally Twitter”, it’s clear from this 
   data that interest in the term Twitter is fading, slowly but surely.
   Since the switch, searches for ‘create X account’ have also risen by 142.86 
   per cent.

Yeah I had the same thought about the account creation metric, I agree that X is such a new name that increased searches about its name don't really mean much.

The overall usage stat does line up with X's own claims about traffic though. i.e. X is saying that traffic is higher than it has ever been and this source suggests the same as well.

These days the only persons who start to follow me, like my tweets or even advertise in my feed are those onlyfans, digital prostitutes or whatever. In fact it's the first time I have to use the block function on Twitter.

Is this the growth?

actual usage by humans is down

https://www.axios.com/2023/10/26/x-twitter-usage-statistics-...

> Traffic is up on X 22% YoY

Bots gonna bot. So far they’ve not caught any of mine I setup this last year.

Each bot sticks to a context, simulates some time wasting doom scrolling at random to look human, posts affiliate links otherwise with AI generating the message payload in response to a Tweet by its mark.

I love how easy the internet made it to fleece potato brains

Making good money?

I have many questions

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