• @MartinXYZ@sh.itjust.works
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    227 个月前

    I’m surprised Reddit is bigger than Xitter. Is that mostly because people have been leaving the Musk project in recent years?

    • xor
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      267 个月前

      As far as I’m aware, twitter has actually been a lot smaller in terms of users than you might imagine from its influence.

      It has a relatively low number of active users, but the fact it’s designed to be a centralised public forum (rather than users being selective who can follow them like Facebook) means it is/was very attractive for businesses, celebrities and politicians.

      • @Kichae@lemmy.ca
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        77 个月前

        Also that – thanks in large part to movements like the Arab Spring using Twitter to organize and publicize – it became the go-to social media for reporters. The news -> celebrity -> news cycle closes itself nicely there, making it very difficult for either group to go anywhere else.