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For people worried about their following on X / Twitter, it's really truly not worth it.

I've left behind 74K followers. I don't miss having my content on there at all, and it has clearly *not* affected traffic even in the slightest bit.

It's been a week since my last content posted from the website to X, so I have a pretty good look at traffic now, there was literally *no* drop-off, and the first few days after leaving X traffic went up 🤷

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Damon L. Wakes

I found exactly the same thing. Right after I stopped using Twitter (but long before I actually deleted my account), I had a decision to make about whether or not to let my blog keep auto-tweeting new posts. I checked how many people were actually following those links. It was something like four that year, and it had been going down and down since even before Musk drove it into the ground.
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Jay P

My main issue leaving Twitter is everyone that's still on it. It's still big in Japan, so a lot of the people I follow from there still use it, and certain niche communities I follow still use it too. Wish they'd pick anything else, even Threads, at least with that I could potentially follow them in the future if they enable Fediverse integration.
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Matthew Sheffield

If you are primarily YouTube based then this would not affect you.

But many people derive huge amounts of traffic from Twitter.

I think it's an oversimplification to assert that your use case applies to everyone else.

Unfortunately, a lot of people are going to remain on Twitter. What we need is crossposting first, especially from governments.

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