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The Guardian is leaving X

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Given that their average post seems to only get 10s of interactions despite their account having 10 million followers, I don’t think they were getting much out of being on X anyway.

Nominally left-leaning news organisation getting hardly any impressions on a far-right extremist social network? I wonder why.

I think you can put it differently: Twitter has changed, the Guardian's target market remains the same. By by now there are so few educated middleclass people on Twitter that as a channel to that market, it's "simply not worth sinking more resources into" as the article says.

I’ve been thinking about this. X appears to be a far right extremist website exactly because extremist far left left en masse, leaving the square to far right people and people that don’t define themselves by what website they have an account on.

So yeah, counter-intuitive, but X appears right-y because leftists left.

Far-right? Extremist? My impression is you're either doing blatant political marketing here, or you don't know what you're talking about.

Twitter is full of propaganda bots for years, pushing real people away from it. Musk's recent attempts to get rid of bots just result in a hollow shell to become even more hollow, because normal people don't want to have anything in common with a platform.

Bluesky picked up AOC and Mark Cuban in the past couple of days, amid their million-new-users-in-a-week influx, so I think the successor has been chosen and the writing is on the wall for anyone looking for an out.

Twitter has still got sports and sports betting, so I imagine it will do quite a bit better than the limping along myspace did after facebook came along. But, based on the stats I track for social impressions, I think twitter is already down to a rounding error as far as return on investment, so it's not surprising to me, in the least, that companies will be focusing their material on instagram, threads, and bluesky.

More discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42129924

I dont blame them. Twitter is in free fall. The content is mostly conspiracy-of-the-week bots now. I already shut off my account.

Somewhat depending on writer, The Guardian is highly biased and fairly inaccurate. I don't think they are filling any type of niche in reporting that we will miss. https://adfontesmedia.com/interactive-media-bias-chart/

How reliable is that media bias chart?

Looking at the scatter plot of the Guardian they don't seem to have made any attempt at separating news reporting from opinion pieces. It would be strange for anyone to expect the latter to be unbiased.

Well, you would read their methodology which they have posted and then decide if it's reliable. Opinion is naturally ranked downward in their methodology, so in a sense it is separated.

The chart has been around for a while and is generally believed to be the leader. It's widely used in academia. It's a good tool but not bulletproof, and they admit the bias of their editors freely.

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