I hope they don't phase X out, because that would be a social media suicide. Orgs, public personas and projects are not average users and can't really care about personal preference or user experience, they only need to care where people are. They are there to get social media reach and just jumping out of Xitter would harm their social media presence and the project.

[–] TheSambassador@lemmy.world 9 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Is there any data on how many actual people still regularly use Twitter? I feel like you're assuming that that's where the users are, and maybe that's still true, but I don't know a single real life person who still actually uses it.

[–] Korkki@lemmy.ml 0 points 4 hours ago

X has 600 million users, Mastodon 9-10 million. Even if you assume 2/3 of Xitter are bots, that's still 20x difference in reach. You should know that you and I are not "normal" for using Mastodon. A group of randomly picked people 9/10 will know of X/twitter, maybe 3/10 have heard of Mastodon.

[–] pr06lefs@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 hour ago

weeps for the unserved nazis, racists, and pedophiles of X

[–] thingsiplay@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 hours ago

Actually, I think in one point you are right: Don't phase out X. Because that would mean all the horrible people would go to all the alternatives and spread like viruses... So leave X there for honeypot of dumb users.