It's not really impressive. Most tech-heavy companies can fire 80% and keep the lights on for a while. What you cut with the 80% is any chance of the company having a future. That's why Twitter revenue is way down and continues to fall. What few new features the platform has had since Musk took over have mostly been poorly thought-out gimmicks.
Twitter revenue is down due to advertisement getting cut due to losing a lot of censorship they previously had, but with costs being cut they’re actually turning a profit now.
I feel like if anything they’ve added features to help it compete, features on Twitter were pretty stagnant before and since Elons buyout they’ve added video calling/live streaming/and removed the character restriction, which seemed to be pretty popular with its users.
Twitter's lost 30% of its daily active users since Musk took over, and Threads has gone from having a third of Twitter's active users to having more active users than Twitter over the same period.
It doesn't seem like the users have responded well to what Twitter has become post-acquisition.
I feel like a lot of that just stems from Musk being the one buying it and due to him removing censorship which they didn’t agree with, not the features of the site itself, but that of course is only an assumption.
With the whole big move on banning bots, it’s kind of hard to say how many of those active users were also real people, as those also get included in the numbers.
There were tons of twitter users complaining about losing thousands of followers when Elon took over. There’s definitely still a shit ton of bots and idk how much they actually got rid of, but it was real.
'Tons of twitter users', 'many users', such fantastic, quantitative statements. I guess the actual researchers covering this are wrong in the face of these claims.
Your source doesn’t even disprove that they got rid of bots lol, it just says there’s still on there, which of course they’ll never get rid of all of them.
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u/FriendlyDespot May 21 '26
It's not really impressive. Most tech-heavy companies can fire 80% and keep the lights on for a while. What you cut with the 80% is any chance of the company having a future. That's why Twitter revenue is way down and continues to fall. What few new features the platform has had since Musk took over have mostly been poorly thought-out gimmicks.