Elon Musk's X lost 11 million users in the EU over the past 5 months

Submitted ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨alyaza@beehaw.org⁩ to ⁨technology@beehaw.org⁩

https://mashable.com/article/elon-musk-x-twitter-eu-users-decline

X’s user base in the European Union is now officially lower than it was prior to Elon Musk’s acquisition of the company.

And that’s according to a new report from Elon Musk’s X (formerly Twitter, but you knew that). The social media platform now has a total of 94.8 million monthly active users in the EU.

That’s a loss of roughly 11 million European users from X’s previous transparency report, as highlighted by Social Media Today.

Mashable previously reported on X’s declining user base in the EU last fall. Now, we know that X’s European user base has continued to drop. In 2022, before Musk acquired the social media platform, the company had more than 100 million users in Europe.

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RejZoR@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
EU needs to run own instance of Mastodon officially and have ALL European politicians on it and go off X entirely. Posting anything on X is supporting nazi Elon.

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- shininghero@pawb.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Hell, I’d even settle for them using something like postybirb to multi-post across all three platforms.
  Bonus points if the ones going to twitter are cut off mid-sentence and replaced with a URL to the official mastodon post.
  
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  - RejZoR@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    That would be a nice touch.
    
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  - sqgl@beehaw.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Twitter would ban such Tweets.
    
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- barsoap@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  The Commission already has an instance and the ECJ also has an instance. I didn’t find one for the parliament, they might not even want to have one but instead leave it to the parties. A parliament instance would amount to the EP president policing parliamentarian’s speech not just inside parliament but also outside of it, kinda iffy.
  
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- ReluctantZen@feddit.nl ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  They have a Mastodon instance for the EC: ec.social-network.europa.eu
  
  Which is a start
  
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- PenguinTD@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Is there a list of more popular decentralized platform and their equivalent? Reddit -> lemmy Twitter -> Mastodon FB -> ?? Discord -> ??
  
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  - JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Discord -> Matrix or Revolt.
    
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  - unique_hemp@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Mastodon can also replace the main FB feed. Matrix would be the closest alternative for Discord, but it has its share of problems.
    
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- gencha@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Social Media is an entirely different game if you’re not doing it for manipulation purposes. At scale, government operated social media fails, due to lack of or excess moderation. Social media works because it triggers emotions. People go there to hate. Mastodon is methadone for these junkies.
  
  I don’t even understand why anyone would trust any self-published metrics from this scam artist.
  
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Lembot_0002@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
That’s a start. But it is still a long way to go.

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- perishthethought@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Yah, 94 million active monthly users still in the EU. The network effect is real.
  
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  - LandedGentry@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
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  - ratel@mander.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Yeah that’s 20% of the population of the EU (total population figure of 450 million used). It’s mental that after all of the things that have happened recently, 1 in 5 people still use Xitter and that’s not even excluding babies.
    
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  - HubertManne@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    sorta surprises me it was higher under him. One thing that annoys me with the local news broadcast is the various social media lists in the info graphic part at the bottom of the screen.
    
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mooncake@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Not enough I’m afraid.

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ddash@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Took way too fucking long, how are people still on there unless they are total Nazis and racists.

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- desktop_user@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  To be fair against mastodon the “mastodonservers.net” (first result on DuckDuckGo when looking up “mastodon instance list”) does list an instance featuring primarily pornographic content first (as far as I can tell this is because it list by usercount in decending order), which could be off putting to some people.
  
  The first Google result for the same query “instances.social” is a list, but in the non legacy non advanced view has almost completely non-functional filters.
  
  Neither of these are “joinmastodon.org” which is probably the best website for someone trying to join mastodon, considering it appears to be ran by the developers.
  
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  - Alice@beehaw.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    People still don’t know what Mastodon is. I mentioned it recently and someone asked, “isn’t it mostly white supremacists?”
    
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collapse_already@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
I have stopped using twitter. Is that enough or do I need to delete my account somehow?

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- crmsnbleyd@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Delete!
  
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- 100_kg_90_de_belin@feddit.it ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Empty it and delete it
  
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MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
That’s sad news. It still had 11 million users.

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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.

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- 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.
  
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  - 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.
    
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wirebeads@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Do better EU. You can lose all your subscriptions to musks Nazi platforms.

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