BREAKING: Twitter is ranked at #42 in the App Store -- while Threads is ranked at #2.

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BREAKING: Twitter is ranked at #42 in the App Store — while Threads is ranked at #2.
TikTok is #5.
Instagram is #7.
Facebook is #12.
Twitter isn’t even on the same playing field as other social media platforms anymore.

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[2naSalit]

1. Good.

[Cha]

2. Wow... Way to Ddrop Down Fast twitter

like a Boulder.

[Submariner]

3. I don't believe Elon cares if it's losing money

As far as this Afrikaner Q-Anon fascist is concerned, if the Twitter maga propaganda machine can prevent Biden’s reelection, a $44 billion loss will be chump change compared to what his twitter investment will return after the rape of our economy under a new Trump regime.

[Dem2theMax]

4. In other words, working as planned.

Destroy the easiest way for people to communicate all around the world. He doesn't want us to be able to access/share the truth in a simple way.

And while he's trashing it into non-existence, fill the place with Propaganda and hate-filled speech.
Win-win for Elon, Trump, Putin, GOP, Etc.

[Mike Nelson]

5. Hope...

... it goes lower! It would be nice if politicians and media would just stop posting there... that would be a great next step. It could become another quarantined group of Don & Elon fans.

[PJMcK]

6. I've never used Twitter

Ain’t gonna start now.

Mostly, social media has proven to be a useless cesspool of lies and misinformation.

Here’s a thought experiment. What good has Twitter been that couldn’t be accomplished by other more reliable means?

Musk is an ass. “X” is a stupid waste of one’s time. Trump’s rise to power was fueled by Twitter.

Tell me again what good it’s brought to our society.

[Emrys]

7. "I've never used Twitter"

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I think you could have stopped there.

It's no surprise that those who have little or no experience of Twitter have no idea what good it's achieved, and is still achieving despite Musk's antics, which seemingly doesn't stop them having the strongest and most vociferous views about it.

Without it, I would have far less knowledge of what's happening in Ukraine unfiltered through the conventional media, and also in my own country, Scotland, for instance. Not a day goes by when I don't find worthwhile content on there. It's not hard to block the crap, and I've had long practice of doing that and ferreting out accounts that have proven to be trustworthy and worthwhile over a number of years. You don't feel the need for it or see any worth in it, having never used it, but nevertheless dismiss it and social media as a whole as "a useless cesspool of lies and misinformation" and "a stupid waste of one’s time".

As for Threads, those who rail against Musk seem happy to ignore the terrible track record of Meta and Mark Zuckerberg on various issues, including heavy-handed censorship of news feeds, highly intrusive and abusive exploitation of personal data, numerous awful and massive security breaches, and being implicated in warping politics in the USA, UK etc. Facebook, part of Meta, was much more responsible for boosting Trump and his ilk than Twitter or any other social media ever were. That's one reason Musk tried to subvert Twitter.

They also seem OK with the fact that Zuckerberg and his management have said clearly and repeatedly that they don't intend hard news to be a significant feature of Threads and won't do anything to encourage it because it's too much trouble. Its numbers are boosted by those who have Instagram accounts, many of whom are hardcore members of fandom, which I have no interest in, and generally block on Twitter because they just provide so much noise and meaningless (to me) nonsense.

The accounts I view regularly on Twitter aren't bailing out to Threads, if they're setting up insurance accounts anywhere in case Twitter goes *poof*, it's most often BlueSky, which has and will have its own issues.

[former9thward]

9. Our government, including President Biden uses X, and it is very useful in that respect.

News comes from those individuals and agencies unfiltered by the MSM. So X is very useful.

[former9thward]

8. Twitter has 106 million daily users. Threads has 13 million daily users.

Not even in the same ballpark. Twitter is a saturated market so of course there are not that many new people signing up for it. Which is why it would be #42. Threads is newer so more people who might want it are signing up and it makes it #2.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1401310/twitter-threads-app-daily-opens-engagement/#:~:text=As%20of%20July%2021%2C%202023%2C%20Twitter%20-%20now,engaging%20with%20the%20app%20on%20a%20daily%20basis.

The post cited in the OP from Threads is a very dishonest use of statistics which attempts to show Threads has more users than Twitter. Or more likely they don't understand math.

[applegrove]

11. Musk will keep stinking it up. Those Twtter numbers will lower.

[Deep State Witch]

10. Everyone Who Still Wants to be on Xitter

Already has it. Threads is new.