Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica on email. Or follow us on Google News! Despite having some bad history on the platform (getting a strange ban in 2023), X/Twitter has still been a useful platform. Not only are there a still a lot of good people on there, ... [continued]
I work with thousands of EV fans on both sides of the political divide there, and I’ve lost hundreds of followers. Using tools to track unfollows, I’ve found that most of the people deleted their accounts. Thousands more simply stopped posting or interacting in any way, leaving without deleting or announcing their departure (X/Twitter isn’t an airport). But enough people have told us where they’re going to know that BlueSky and Threads are the most common destinations.
That is a massive drop in engagement, it will be interesting to see Twitter’s monthly active user count after the dust settles.
What I’m seeing happen now is Democrat-leaning and centrist EV enthusiasts moving off to BlueSky, Threads, and to a smaller extent, the Fediverse (Mastodon, Diaspora, Hubzilla, and various other CMS platforms via plugins). Right-leaning people are either staying on Facebook (which has become a home for elderly illiterates) or X/Twitter.
That is a massive drop in engagement, it will be interesting to see Twitter’s monthly active user count after the dust settles.
Mastodon got mentioned wooo!