• abhibeckert@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    It just hasn’t hit that Twitter-level critical mass of users

    Twitter used to be bigger than it is now and it also used to have less spam. So clearly size isn’t the problem.

    The problem with twitter is Musk fired all the people who spent their day figuring out how to hide (or just delete) shitty content.

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      6 months ago

      Twitter used to be bigger than it is now and it also used to have less spam. So clearly size isn’t the problem.

      Twitter usage surged significantly prior to the Musk buyout. In 2010 they had 40M. They crested 400M users by 2020.

      That’s the difference between growing your base and harvesting them.

      Bluesky has in the neighborhood of 5-6M, by comparison.