@BeneCal As much as I like the headline, it's spin...

According to their own pie chart, the largest category of respondents says "It has been about the same". Add that to "It has decreased slightly", "It has increased slightly", and "It has increased significantly" and you have 69.4%. Then notice that less than half of their respondents have opened accounts on other social-media platforms. This paints a much different picture.

IMHO, Elon Musk is a jerk and he's made a lot of bad decisions. Some of this is quantifiable, but that doesn't change the fact that a lot of people are still very active on Twitter (or whatever it's called) and getting a lot of value out of it. They're blissfully uninterested in the pseudo-political drama.

@BeneCal Not a scientist, but science adjacent, and I'm in this group.

I keep a Twitter acct., mostly so that I keep control of my name on that platform. But I spend asymptotically close to zero time on that collapsing cesspool.

@BeneCal Another way the X makes sense.

At first I thought: Ridiculous rename.

Then Musk didn't delete the account of a user who posted child pornography, so I thought, "Oh, the site is X-rated now" even though child porn is still illegan, and and it's a site that allows teen registrations, hmmm.

@BeneCal

Style guide says it's xitter. As in: i gotta get rid of that xitter and fill in the hole.