Just heard a good offline with @jonfavs.bsky.social wondering about this with all the limiting happening. Wild to see it going down so hard and fast (that’s what she said).
Wish it was because the site is garbage but before you could view tweets in links and search and now you can't. Pretty obvious what that will do to traffic numbers
Nah, good news, it's totally because the site is garbage - this graph starts at January! The no external views thing is barely a week old (and it obviously didn't help); but we're looking at a sustained decline over 7 months.
I just cruised twitter without an account. Still developed quite a habit. Now I literally can’t see it without creating an account. And I ain’t doing that now. So I wonder how many voyeurs like me they just lost.
Same here, I had my favorite Twitter folks open in tabs on my phone to check in on daily. It all died the same day my invite to Bluesky appeared, serendipity
I had an account that i got so into that i took the app off my phone - and now i can't see tweets that friends text me or for basic civic info without my laptop. Great going all!
It’s so funny that a stupid comment I made there yesterday is receiving more traction than I normally get by kinda a lot as I’ve barely been there like it’s trying so hard to get me to come back. Sorry baby, it’s over.
With so many of the highly active users jumping ship, and entire communities largely walking away, I’m guessing that this decline will just keep increasing.
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Was curious to see a longer graph that shows how Twitter rank compares to pre-Musk era.