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

submitted 1 year ago by sculd@beehaw.org to c/technology@beehaw.org

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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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[–] cloud@lazysoci.al 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Mobile phones are toys designed not to be professional devices at all. Photographers use real cameras, journalists, business men, programmers, don't type their shit on a 1 inch touch keyboard.

If you want your tech to just work you don't buy apple products that gets locked in by updates and have all sort of incompatibilities, some of their shit doesn't even have usb ports

[–] abhibeckert@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Photographers use real cameras

They are real cameras. Have you seen the photos and videos people create with phones? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8qFTgcRV6w

Yes, there are some situations where an iPhone won't get you a great photo... but that's true of any real camera too. You don't take a several hundred thousand dollar Sony HDC-4800 to a wedding for example. Professionals use the right tool for the situation and these days that is often a phone.

journalists, business men, programmers, don’t type their shit on a 1 inch touch keyboard.

I'm two of those, I type constantly on my phone. Yes - I also have a nice mechanical keyboard and I always use it at my desk, but I'm not always at my desk.

[–] cloud@lazysoci.al 2 points 1 year ago

Ask a photographer to take pictures at your wedding and they will show up with a real camera not with an iphone.