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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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in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮

Only thing I miss from twitter (apart from a couple social contacts I lost) was that the as a customer support channel it worked. Have an issue with something? Just complain out loud on twitter. The customer support will contact you promptly.
in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮

Hmm.. Might it have something to do with the fact that you're about gaming on #Linux and, well... all the Linux nerds are on here? 🙂
(In any case, congrats for leaving twitter and I'm glad you found your crowd!)

(typo, edited needs for nerds)

Tato položka byla upravena (9 hours ago)
in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮

I've always felt that Twitter massively overstated its relevance in the social media space. I'd imagine you get more traffic from places like Reddit?
in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮

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.
in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮

There is an ever increasing chance that a large proportion of those 74k accounts are dead/bot accounts.
in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮

I think the only people that need a centralized social media like Twitter are those who peddle in going viral. (Eg Kardashian) Vs gaming on Linux which is about news
in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮

I think I topped out at 1800 followers on Twitter.

I've long since surpassed that on Mastodon. It helps that there's no algorithm which hates me around here!

in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮

That's pretty much confirmed by Heise, one of the larger German magazine outlets.

CC: @hannu_ikonen

social.heise.de/@mho/113464109…


The week is over, here are some charts:
For two weeks in a row, #Mastodon brought more #traffic than #X / #Twitter to heise.de.
But I forgot, that's not just via @heiseonline, but also @heisec, @ct_Magazin, @heiseautos, @iX_Magazin etc. (but for Twitter its the same).

#Bluesky is way behind, #Threads even more. Only Twitter is clearly falling.

(🧵 1/3)

#SocialMedia
#TwitterExodus
#TwitterMigration
#MastodonMigration
#Fediverse


Tato položka byla upravena (11 hours ago)
in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮

You're right tbh Using X isn't really worth it, really what's the point.
Tato položka byla upravena (11 hours ago)
in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮

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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in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮

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.

in reply to Matthew Sheffield

@mattsheffield i’m not YouTube based, and Twitter has *never* been a good source of traffic, this has been repeated by many many people and groups
in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮

Maybe you are not Twitter based, but for me, Twitter has always been a fantastic source of traffic.

I wish I could replace it but unfortunately, the fediverse and Bluesky are not anywhere close.

in reply to Matthew Sheffield

@mattsheffield You don't even have 4K followers on Twitter, so that's both surprising and not so, your reach in general is just...small
in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮

Seems like you should look closer there.

You should stop projecting your traffic experience onto others.

in reply to Matthew Sheffield

@mattsheffield I was going by Discover Flux, which I assumed you were on about for your work stuff which is why you wanted the reach.

I'm not projecting anything, and this attitude you seem to be giving me is now annoying. I was giving my own experience.

in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮

@mattsheffield Anyway, muting now, I don't see sense on talking over this further, it's working out well for me and X is a far-right shithole platform now, cya 😀
in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮

Muting this now, but in the end this was just my experience I wanted to share. You *can* make other platforms work, if you put in just a bit of effort.

X is terrible, Twitter is dead. And I hope to see more people move on from it.

in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮

It's worse than dead. It's a national security risk and a danger to democracy run by an insane lunatic.