Having lost a third of the UK daily users by September, what is missing from the reporting is how much of his British user base Elon Musk has lost since he took over Twitter Probably lost over half by now? Key missing fact if reporting on his impact - ThreadSky

sundersays.bsky.social • 65 days ago

Having lost a third of the UK daily users by September, what is missing from the reporting is how much of his British user base Elon Musk has lost since he took over Twitter

Probably lost over half by now?

Key missing fact if reporting on his impact

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scot-ish.bsky.social•65 days ago

Media and governments need to get their pages off there too

ianrobo.bsky.social•65 days ago

but the media still on there as we see, I am ignoring the current story as it is those media whipping it up and probably co-ordinated. Normal users are leaving in masses but whilst the BBC still quotes from there etc then little will change

fredmartenson.bsky.social•65 days ago

Also, assuming these data count the tsunami of new bots flooding X as "users", the number of *actual human users* ditching the platform could be even higher

viviennesoton.bsky.social•64 days ago

He doesn’t care, because so long as he posts his rants the British media will solemnly report it as if it was rational.

moira31mudlarks.bsky.social•64 days ago

But he gets his views amplified by other billionaire alt right media owners from Telegraph, Express, Mail and even The Times - the later increasingly like the Telegraph x

sundersays.bsky.social•64 days ago

We should find the public response rather encouraging. This is British public views of Elon Musk

moira31mudlarks.bsky.social•64 days ago

My concern is the amplification across other media

hoovermouse.bsky.social•65 days ago

I'd put money on a further step down this week. It's been dire

mondiniho.bsky.social•65 days ago

I’m just waiting for the last few accounts I follow to move off that platform onto here - BBC and Sky need to do so.

kezlajones.bsky.social•64 days ago

I was waiting, but have had enough and deactivated today. They’ll get here eventually. 🤞🏻

pieist.xenoplasm.com•65 days ago

Or at least for them to put a toe in the water here. The marginal cost of maintaining a presence on X while still posting here is nil, so they're not necessarily going to leave X even once they're here.

trundling17.bsky.social•64 days ago

I think Sky are on here @news.sky.com Is this legit?!

severn.xyz•64 days ago

Yep, it's at the correct domain and therefore can be verified as them.

andy-1967.bsky.social•64 days ago

The BBC definitely needs to move off and away from Twitter, Sky can stay there and burn with Musk for all I care. It’s rapidly turning into a version of Fox News.

caln19.bsky.social•64 days ago

Sky News is nothing like Fox, probably the most neutral major UK news outlet… can you see anything on their site currently that’s obviously poltically biased? https://news.sky.com/

andy-1967.bsky.social•64 days ago

Those excuses for journalists that appear on their channel, who will unashamedly push right wing points. That’s enough for me. Definitely not neutral at all.

ungoldsworthy.bsky.social•64 days ago

True re users but he’s consolidated personal support? Global total followers risen from 180m (Aug, riots etc) to 210m (now)? Realise much maybe non-UK but his voice is more audible.

rmeee91.bsky.social•64 days ago

Bots don't count, and it'd be safe to assume that's about 40% of his following.

So we can believe it's around 100m, minus 10 million for those who follow him just to take the piss.

90m against a population of over 8 billion is next to fuck all worldwide.

ungoldsworthy.bsky.social•64 days ago

Yes I’m not persuaded by the numbers, but even if they’re that inflated, he has more traction than ever.

The press now prints his views regularly so he cuts through.

edbenegg.bsky.social•65 days ago

Where did the stats come from for the original graph and do you know why they aren't available anymore? Are they just hiding that a business is in decline?

sarabuschova.bsky.social•65 days ago

Perhaps that’s ultimately why he’s attacking uk hot topics - desperate for relevance

richardblogger.bsky.social•64 days ago

In any other $44bn business the investors would be asking how they can get a RoI with such a collapse in number of users. Clearly with X the RoI comes from something else

execrable.bsky.social•65 days ago

Talk of X eventually going under has kinda gone quiet ever since Trump won re-election, despite the same talk about actual 'defections' to BSky or other platforms. Don't know whether it's just a coincidence.

jasonoflondon.bsky.social•65 days ago

Wouldn't say it's a "key" missing fact. The fact is, we are all still talking about it.

I don't think he cares about twitx user numbers and experience, because he's still reaching the crazies who tell him he's right, and mainstream news outlets still report what he's said to the rest of us.

sundersays.bsky.social•65 days ago

The main impact on attitudes is a sharp negative shift in opinion of Elon Musk in Britain and of X/Twitter in Britain over the last two years.

jasonoflondon.bsky.social•65 days ago

Yes, but that's now kind of irrelevant isn't it given he's a very prominent person in the incoming Trump administration? It just doesn't matter that most of us can see he is a far-right nutter, unfortunately he's become a very powerful.

I suspect attitudes to Trump are similarly negative, right?

sundersays.bsky.social•65 days ago

Yes, they are similar. Attitudes in America are very relevant to his influence in America

But attitudes in Britain and Germany are v relevant to his sustained effort to influence domestic politics in Britain and Germany

jasonoflondon.bsky.social•65 days ago

Fair point, but I don't think he is bothered if a majority are negative toward him. He retains the support of his far-right fanbase, which even if it doesn't climb above a certain ceiling, can destabilise and undermine mainstream political groups in both countries. Or just cause riots. Or both.

andrewsharpe.bsky.social•65 days ago

It's probably fair to say folk in the UK are much more bothered by him funding our political parties than his rabid posts on X.

pieist.xenoplasm.com•65 days ago

It'd be interesting to know if the decline accelerated with the election, or if some kind of "those most susceptible to leaving have already left" effect has arrived and the decline is falling as it finds its level with an unswerving core group.

dieterjosef.bsky.social•64 days ago

If you add the high number of useless sexy-girl-bots that fav randomly you may get even a higher loss.

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