After nearly 20 years on the platform, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) he says that “It is not a decision we made lightly, and it may be overdue.” “The numbers haven’t been coming out for a while.”
From the digital rights group's publication:
We were posting on Twitter (now known as X) five to ten times a day in 2018. Those tweets were getting somewhere between 50 and 100 million impressions per month. By 2024, our 2.500 posts on X were generating about 2 million impressions each month.
Last year, our 1.500 posts gained about 13 million views for the entire year.
To put it bluntly, a post on X today receives less than 3% of the views that a single tweet had seven years ago.
When you go online, you have to have rights. X is no longer where the battle is being fought. The platform Musk took over doesn't exist today, and what does exist is something else: diminished and increasingly de minimis.
Musk fired the company's entire human rights team. He even laid off staff in countries where the former Twitter was resisting censorship demands from repressive regimes. Many users left. So did we.
EFF fights big battles and wins them. We do this by dedicating our time, skills, and support of our members to where they will make the biggest difference. Right now, that means Bluesky, Mastodon, LinkedIn, Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, YouTube, and eff.org.
We hope you'll follow us there and continue to support the work we do. Our work to protect digital rights is needed more than ever, and we're here to help you take back control.
Although the press releases will range from very select to rare, I said I'd pass...because sometimes the editors hide.
Our views have dropped, let's leave the most famous platform and let them drop even more! Let's go to Mastodon, where from what I've seen, not a single person has responded to their last 3 posts!
At some point you have to understand that the problem isn't the platform, it's you, no one cares about what you post. What are they really drinking...