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Tim Chambers

🔥 Our biggest update yet: our new quarterly report on the #TwitterMigration is live!

Covers the stark negative impact of the X rebrand, the dramatic rise, cooling & now stabilizing of Threads as a competitor closer on X’s heels than most think. Also features the state of play of Mastodon & BlueSky as rising alternatives while others shrink.

Is an in-depth view of the best third-party research and original analysis from my team. cc: @fediverse

Get it here: ➡️ bit.ly/3QaHR2W
12 Oct 2023 at 13:52 | Open on indieweb.social
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Robbie Norlyn :coffefied:

@tchambers I am concerned about Meta constantly taking over other social mediums while already having a captive audience. Their methods seem most non competitive and I believe serious consequences should follow.

12 Oct 2023 at 14:20 | Open on mstdn.social
Cyber Yuki

@tchambers I think this is a terrible format for such graph. Wouldn't this be better shown with a line chart with the months on the X axis and the different services as colored lines?

12 Oct 2023 at 14:56 | Open on hackers.town
Tim Chambers

@yuki2501 Always up for suggestions, our goal here was to show monthly changes in user bio metions for each platform en masse. In past reports the feedback we got was that this was helpful.
For future reports will keep experimenting with other visualizations....

12 Oct 2023 at 14:58 | Open on indieweb.social
Haelus Novak

@tchambers @yuki2501

Thanks for sharing this information and report! I agree the graph shown isn't the best or most convincing for the story being told, but I am glad you had the other graph in the longer report which clearly demarcates when Twitter became X-- I didnt really remember when this happened so months were hard to use to inform the conclusions of the graphs.

Did I miss any statistical reports demonstrating the "negative trends" spoken about? Some of the trends look fairly mild, but the scale on y axes is often such a large quantity, a minor slope could look squashed and unimpressive. A bit more quantitative/statistical evidence for non-zero slopes would be helpfull

Sorry if I missed the details somewhere. :/

@tchambers @yuki2501

Thanks for sharing this information and report! I agree the graph shown isn't the best or most convincing for the story being told, but I am glad you had the other graph in the longer report which clearly demarcates when Twitter became X-- I didnt really remember when this happened so months were hard to use to inform the conclusions of the graphs.

12 Oct 2023 at 15:17 | Open on universeodon.com
Cyber Yuki

@tchambers Glad to know, thanks!

12 Oct 2023 at 17:28 | Open on hackers.town
Tim Chambers
Ujun Jeong

@tchambers Thanks for the great and concise article. In my opinion, the statement about the survival of Threads should be more careful, as the report only talked about the accumulated number of users on Threads and not the real-time traffic.

12 Oct 2023 at 18:11 | Open on mastodon.world
Tim Chambers

@ujeong1 Totally agree with that caution: The Insider Intelligence data was based on monthly active users, so that is closer to ongoing user traffic. But not as good as daily active users, for sure. It definitely did not include session time per visit, which we'll be watching for from other places too.

12 Oct 2023 at 18:13 | Open on indieweb.social
Jeff
Tor Kingdon

@tchambers wonder how/if they counted profiles that mention “extinct pachyderm,” because that’s what mine says.

12 Oct 2023 at 19:10 | Open on urbanists.social
Tim Chambers

@kingtor We didn't as we used full masto user names and the top 110 servers from instances.social at the tme.

12 Oct 2023 at 19:19 | Open on indieweb.social
Tor Kingdon

@tchambers Fair approach. Just know there are some of us who didn’t trust Elon not to take down profiles that redirect to competitors.
12 Oct 2023 at 19:28 | Open on urbanists.social
Evan Prodromou

@tchambers this is really interesting, and great work.

12 Oct 2023 at 19:20 | Open on cosocial.ca
Pam Phillips

@tchambers As one of the 60K of Twitter users with Mastodon in my profile, I feel seen. The X rebrand convinced me to let it go. The deletion happened in September.

12 Oct 2023 at 19:27 | Open on better.boston
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