lnc0

Assigned Essex Lad at birth

  • Fae/Faer

Sebastiana
In that 3rd Decade cycle
Autistic as in Eat My Ass
Agender / A System / Cute

Currently writing Beastiary Beas


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shel
@shel

Read a CNN article that said last year, before the Musk takeover, Twitter had 238 million active users. That's just... so few isn't it? Like there's 330 million people in the US alone and Twitter was hugely international right? Once you spread that out across all the different countries that Twitter was apparently popular in... it turns out that a minority of people were using it. It sure felt like "everyone" was there and it was "the public square" that you "have" to be in but actually it really wasn't.


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Working in a field where I often have long conversations with people outside my social circle about our interests has really been useful in that it forces me to contend with the fact that, say, Steam boasting about having 120 million users means basically NOTHING. Like, that's SO few people on a global scale. I'll mention that I have a game up on Steam and 9 times out of 10 I have to explain that Steam is an online store for computer games. Very important for the internet-brained to receive frequent reminders of how universal our experiences aren't

What blew my mind, was discovering that Twitter wasn't even in the top 10 for monthly active users. It barely made the top 20.

Instagram has, when Twitter was at its peak, almost four times the userbase (2 billion vs Twitter's 450 million).

Twitter's 'popularity' was entirely driven by the fact that newsmedia/media kept referring to everything happening on it as important.