davekarpfHow would we know that Twitter has become a ghost town?
I think it’s happening already, and we know because Elon accidentally told us.
My latest, on Substack:
Stephen@davekarpf Interesting. The few times I pop into my Twitter feed these days, almost everything in my “Following” feed is from corporate/ media / brand accounts. Individual - and especially power user - activity has fallen off a cliff.
Zav@88 @davekarpf Twitter activity statistically increased since Musk's takeover.
@thull @88 yeah but those numbers are inflated as hell.
Before the takeover, Twitter had a team that was deleting hundreds of thousands of new bot accounts every day.
Elon fired basically that entire team. And then, shocker, Twitter acitivity increased. That isn’t NECESSARILY spambots, but it’s a pretty strong hypothesis.
That’s what I find interesting in the numbers. Other peoples’ Twitter might be hoppin’. But may network neighborhood is tumbleweeds.