TikTok calls report of possible sale to Musk's X 'pure fiction'

China? TikTok is a successful private company owned by ByteDance.

Echoes of the days before Musk bought Twitter.

Don't let that clown ruin Tiktok as he did with Twitter..

Musk sued by SEC today

Don't let that clown ruin Tiktok 

It's already ruined

as he did with Twitter..

No, it WAS ruined, but now it's back to being a democratic, free-speech social platform, he made it better actually.

Not gonna lie but I'd rather China have my info over Musk. The lesser of 2 evils isn't trying to derail democracy in the country I was born in at least

No, it WAS ruined, but now it's back to being a democratic, free-speech social platform, he made it better actually.

No he made it into this grimy pile of garbage, the rapid decline in users isn't better in any way shape or form. Only people who love to make racist posts uses Twitter these days

the rapid decline in users isn't better in any way shape or form.

Yep, in the year up to Sept 2024, Twitter has lost 1/5th of daily users in the US and 1/3rd of daily users in the UK

https://www.socialmediatoday.com/news/x-formerly-twitter-losing-users-in-the-us-and-uk/727842/

“Data from Similarweb shows active daily users in the UK have dropped from 8mn a year ago to only around 5.6mn now, with more than a third of that fall coming since the summer riots. The same thing is happening elsewhere, and not just in places where the platform has been banned, such as Brazil. Over the same 16-month period, X’s active users in the US have fallen by about a fifth.”

That also aligns with X’s own reporting on its EU user base. As part of its EU reporting obligations, X needs to provide regular updates on its EU user base, and how many active users it’s serving in the region. In its most recent report, covering the first six months of 2024, X reported a 5% decline in EU users.

"The shift from X (formerly Twitter) to Bluesky continues. In the US alone, X's daily users have decreased by 2.7 million in two months, while Bluesky's has increased by 2.4 million."

https://gigazine.net/gsc_news/en/20241212-twitter-x-bluesky-us-dau/

Here's the comparison graph from Oct 2024 to Dec 2024:

https://i.gzn.jp/img/2024/12/12/twitter-x-bluesky-us-dau/01.png

Beyond celebrities and journalists, the most surprising departures from X have come from German football clubs. First Hamburg’s St Pauli left, calling X a “hate machine”, followed by Werder Bremen, which said that “with the recent radicalisation of the platform, a line had been crossed for the club”.

Its director of communications, Christoph Pieper, said X no longer aligned with the values the club strives to hold, and that reducing its visibility online was a price worth paying for its principles.

“We are leaving 600,000 followers on X for only 9,000 on Bluesky,” he said. “It can have economic consequences for us, because our partners have paid for a range that was significantly greater at X than it is now at Bluesky. But … we as a club have moral values. We fight against transphobia, homophobia, antisemitism, discrimination. For us a place where there is no regulation for hate speech is not the place to be.”

Pieper said the club was not sure if it has found a permanent home on Bluesky, but that it did not regret its decision: “Bluesky is currently the right choice for us, and other clubs are gradually switching to it. But we can’t yet say whether the platform will catch on. What is clear though is that X is the wrong one.”