• Jordan117@lemmy.world
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    I’m all for shitting on Xitter, but this is a pretty bad article. It’s written like somebody put it through Google Translate a few times, and doesn’t cite any sources for any of its claims. Closest I could find was this Business Insider story on a report by Apptopia, which only says that its downloads in various app stores declined 30%, not its overall userbase.

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      Un-fact checked, poorly seemingly AI written, citing no sources? So you’re saying it’s perfect for Twitter?

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      I haven’t had the chance to look up the data myself, but if downloads did decline in a way that’s unprecedented its a strong loss leader. To be really interesting though you’d have to couple it with other metrics.

      Edit: There are people implying they work or worked at Twitter. They didn’t.

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        Declining downloads simply means a slowing of growth, whereas this is claiming a user decline. That only shows up in traffic logs, transit commits, or CDN account usage data.

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          Not necessarily.

          Every time someone buys a new device they have to reinstall the app. So declining downloads could be indicitive of less users.

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            Yeah and also, in capitalism, if a company ceases to grow, there’s a good chance it will vaporize soon after. It’s not a causation, but it’s a notable correlation.

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              Yup! There are people out there with big pockets watching for stats much subtler than this. It doesn’t always mean much taken on its own, but as a whole can paint an interesting picture.

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                whole can paint an interesting picture.

                I know there’s meant to be a comma after ‘whole’. But I just pictured someone dumping a whole can of paint on a canvas and yelling “time!” Before walking over and slapping it on an easel at an auction and selling it for millions, while still dripping.

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            Phone replacement is a high seasonality situation. CDN usage and access logs will absolutely show whether usage has declined or not. Release an iPhone and you see a major spike in new downloads, otherwise it’s probably all pretty much background noise.

            My guess is everything involving Twitter has been on a decline, and the things I did know I’m not able to share.

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          I see what you mean. The other day I was submitting a change request to my grafana server and noticed an issue. When I RDPed into the VM running it I noticed that despite no issues present on our dashboard, we had an emergency on our hands. There was an insane amount of mDNS hits from an address I’ve never seen. Most of them being made to Google IPs. The assumption we made was that something in our cluster had been misconfigured.

          I think it’s an example that deserves comparison here.

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      Imagine paying 40 billion for it too. The moron is so disconnected, I hope he gets butt cancer.