The new data — comprehensive and definitive — should put to rest the countervailing narratives over Musk’s management of the app. Under his stewardship, X’s daily user base has declined from an estimated 140 million users to 121 million, with a widening gap between people who check the app daily vs. monthly. X’s remaining daily users are engaged similarly as before. But the pool is shrinking. Apptopia pulls its data from more than 100,000 apps on iOS and Android, along with publicly available sources.
So apparently it lost only 13% of daily users? Thats a smaller number than I thought. Still bad news for Twitter though.
On the other hand, it shows the power of content creators and niche communities. I used less Twitter but cannot delete it because it is literally how I connect with my niche community on there.
I joined at first because someone I like moved to it. But then I forgot about it for several years. As of two weeks ago though all of a sudden it just started to actually be engaging, and I began making friends on it. Now the people who are still on Twitter just aren’t important to my web experience. I still have friends who use Twitter but I just don’t need Twitter to interact with them anymore.
Also George Takei is on Mastodon and you know him even if it’s just in the parasocial sense.