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Tim Chambers

New research from my team on the #TwitterMigration:

This is our first quarterly update analyzing which platforms are growing - esp #mastodon & #postnews. Includes new data on users posting, app downloads & more.

Get it here: ▶️ is.gd/EI1lOl

Any help boosting and sharing out this new work is very appreciated!
9 Mar 2023 at 12:56 | Open on indieweb.social
34 comments
irwin

@tchambers Very interesting! Also, I've heard anectdotally that certain communities are splintering to different platforms -- journos to Mastodon and Post, and I've heard some gamers are favoring Cohost. Have you seen other examples of this?

9 Mar 2023 at 13:19 | Open on saturation.social
Tim Chambers

@irwin We are definitely going to add a section in the next quarter's report specifically on "communities" migration en masse to different platforms.

I think your view on this is right and we'll study in more to try to add hard data to it.

9 Mar 2023 at 13:21 | Open on indieweb.social
irwin
British Tech Guru

@irwin @tchambers Now THAT was a very interesting, well researched, thought provoking article.

I have had FB accounts. Same as LinkedIn accounts. I generally find I get blocked from both unless I can prove my identity by sending them a copy of a government issued ID. That's not happening. That ends up with my being barred from the account so I set up a new account with a new name and contact all my friends to tell them the new account name. The cycle of new account then blocking continued until I finally said stuff FakedIn and FakeBook.

There's something morally abhorrent about random websites insisting on seeing government ID when there is no transaction going on. It's like being asked to pay to walk from your car parked outside Office Max to Circuit City because you're walking across the KMart parking lot.

The trouble with FB is too many people believe all their "friends" there are real so they won't leave. They're likely AI bots placed to stop people leaving.

@irwin @tchambers Now THAT was a very interesting, well researched, thought provoking article.

I have had FB accounts. Same as LinkedIn accounts. I generally find I get blocked from both unless I can prove my identity by sending them a copy of a government issued ID. That's not happening. That ends up with my being barred from the account so I set up a new account with a new name and contact all my friends to tell them the new account name. The cycle of new account then blocking continued until I...

9 Mar 2023 at 15:51 | Open on techhub.social
ResearchBuzz
Aaron Pressman

@tchambers @irwin adding that to my blog immediately

9 Mar 2023 at 14:59 | Open on journa.host
Kuba Suder

@irwin @tchambers yup, I see the same thing - a lot of tech/programming communities e.g. Apple/Swift people seem to favor Mastodon and many have left Twitter, while most politics/news content (e.g. those tracking the war in Ukraine) have stayed on Twitter. Bitcoin/crypto people have stayed on Twitter and also heavily use Nostr now (and I think it's mostly them so far).

9 Mar 2023 at 15:30 | Open on martianbase.net
irwin

@mackuba @tchambers I, for one, am happy the crypto/NFT folks prefer to stay on Twitter! But journalists I think have a difficult problem having to maintain presences on multiple platforms.

9 Mar 2023 at 15:33 | Open on saturation.social
Tim Chambers
Brownian_motion

@tchambers Any guesses for numbers for the non-federated sites?

9 Mar 2023 at 13:21 | Open on mastodon.scot
Tim Chambers

@Brownian_motion By that do you mean forks like non-federating Gab, TruthSocial, CoHost?

9 Mar 2023 at 13:22 | Open on indieweb.social
David Boles

@tchambers

Excellent work! The graph is dramatic and insightful! Thanks for this!

9 Mar 2023 at 13:30 | Open on boles.xyz
Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦

@tchambers amazing stuff! Thank you for doing this work.

Also:

MaStAdAn Is DyInG!!1! :mastowink:

9 Mar 2023 at 13:30 | Open on mstdn.social
Setuforcreators

@tchambers very insightful, thank you for sharing!

9 Mar 2023 at 13:36 | Open on mstdn.social
masukomi

@tchambers FYI Firefox gave me a security warning when i attempted to download that because it was shared over http not https. I had to click a button to make it allow it. This is of course 🧠 damaged, but... figured you should know because folks who don't know the difference won't know it's just being stupid.

9 Mar 2023 at 13:43 | Open on connectified.com
⁰FisherTX14

@tchambers

Interesting that the growth was the same scale each month for #mastodon for the quarter. Same for Post on a much smaller scale. And all others hardly exist at all and have to zoom the image to even see them. The only people I know who went to Post were attention/follower needy types who would comment every day if they lost a follower or someone didn't follow back. Despite what some "news" stories say, essentially everyone moved to Mastodon.

9 Mar 2023 at 13:45 | Open on newsie.social
Tim Chambers

@FisherTX14 I think the number of post tweets also dropped after the waitlist ended. If you remember, they encouraged posts to tweet, and doing so would move you to the front part of the line.

9 Mar 2023 at 14:04 | Open on indieweb.social
Jari Pennanen

@tchambers Big omission from the graph is Tumblr. I know that it's mentioned in the document itself, but it would be nice to have it graphed if possible.

They were gaining 100k users per week still early in a year if I heard Matt Mullenweg correctly. Tumblr also might have good retention, my guess is that creative types went there.

9 Mar 2023 at 13:47 | Open on twit.social
Tim Chambers

@Ciantic Hi - we know this, but for folks adding it to their bios and to their posts about migration we found data we needed to dig on more before publishing.

Definitely hope to focus more on Tumblr in the next report.

We did include the app download numbers for them, and will dig more on Tumblr in particular in the next quarterly report, which was the best data that was solid and good to publish.

9 Mar 2023 at 14:03 | Open on indieweb.social
Bärchelor of Science

I'm kinda happy mastodon is doing so well. Especially compared to cohost which seemed to be the new thing for my friend circle.

9 Mar 2023 at 14:07 | Open on social.tchncs.de
otto

@tchambers Thanks. This is another dimension in the "map of the social media universe" and I can now put a pin marked "I am here". And I see I am in a good place for connecting.

9 Mar 2023 at 14:12 | Open on noc.social
Bookfairiecymru
Eastender In Cymru Wales

@tchambers Increasingly now Twitter is the place where I argue. Mastodon is where I feel I'm with friends

9 Mar 2023 at 14:29 | Open on toot.wales
Stephanie King

@tchambers A lot of the writers I know got super hype about Hive for, like, a week and then never mentioned it again

9 Mar 2023 at 14:31 | Open on mstdn.social
Tim Chambers

@stephstephking Yeah that dropped fast. Esp after a nasty data leak of all users info.

9 Mar 2023 at 14:40 | Open on indieweb.social
Sagebiel Markus
jahruhn
TammyGentzel

@tchambers Interesting. Just got an email from Spoutible claiming they are growing at a faster rate and beng used more comsistently than either Mastadon or Post.

9 Mar 2023 at 15:17 | Open on awscommunity.social
Piff 123

@tchambers Hi Tim, might be interesting for @dashboard as well?

9 Mar 2023 at 15:17 | Open on mastodon.social
Yuri

@tchambers It's honestly cool that no one uses Diaspora for that. Or it's not considered as an alternative for that.

9 Mar 2023 at 15:24 | Open on mastodon.online
Bill's in the shop for repairs

@tchambers Sometimes the simplest #dataviz is the best, right down to the default Office 2017 colors scheme! Super clear, colorblind-accessible, and easy to understand.

9 Mar 2023 at 15:36 | Open on vis.social
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