Comment on Elon Musk's X lost 11 million users in the EU over the past 5 months
jaybone@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
lol they claimed some time back to have 3 billion users, so I’m sure this 11 million is no big deal.
Because half of the entire human population has a Twitter account.
PolarKraken@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
Nah, this seems like a big deal. Not necessarily “imminent doom for Twitter” big, but still. Social media platforms live and die on network effects, and none (that I’m aware of) has ever successfully “forced” their own viability without having naturally strong network effects.
Network effects work in favor of signups and engagement of course, but they work on the downswing too, they can accelerate abandonment and replacement.
jaybone@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Yeah it’s definitely a big problem for them. I was being sarcastic above. There’s no way they have 3 billion users.
PolarKraken@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
Whoops 😅