Jason LefkowitzThis chart Nate Silver made of the X accounts with the most engagement in 2026 seems like it might be useful to show decent orgs who resist moving their primary online presence off X. Is this really the company your org wants to keep?
This is also why I have little patience for the "we have to stay on X to ~resist~" argument. If you are looking for people whose minds are available to be changed, X is the absolute last place you will find them
Joe Cooper 🇺🇦 🍉@jalefkowit you won't be allowed into their feed, anyway. The Xitter algorithm elevates right wing extremists exclusively, now.
Stefan Bohacek@jalefkowit This all will make sense if you just think of this as a game of http://slither.com/io.
I_give_u_worms@stefan @jalefkowit a game where the rules can be changed by the person who bought the game, unless Kevin Sorbo and James Woods have been in any movies at all lately
Proto Himbo European@jalefkowit I think abandoning X is the most reasonable thing. I can understand at least a couple of counter-arguments, but they aren't very convincing to me. I eventually left Twitter over its toxification and what that was doing to me (and not wanting to be part of that culture). I was on there, so I told myself, because Trump was president and had started making world-changing announcements; I felt like I couldn't look away, and had to know what was coming.
Well, I get pretty good updates here and elsewhere. I don't need to be on X, Truth Social, threads, or any other deeply fascist-embedded platform. It's a burden lifted.
Timo Kramer@jalefkowit curious if there's been filtering here on US based political accounts or if it's mostly just them left on the platform. Don't see any musicians, and that used to be HUGE. Surely accounts like Taylor Swift, Kanye West, BTS or like Lady Gaga would have quite some interaction as well.
@Timo_Micro My ability to answer methodological questions about Silver's work is limited, sorry. You'd need to ask him to get a hard answer.
That being said, he does link in the post to the site where he got the data, and its reports for Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube show much more engagement with apolitical entertainment content. So if they're filtering for politics, they're not doing it globally.
@Timo_Micro (Disclaimer: this is Silver's source, not mine, I can't speak to its accuracy or bias.)
@jalefkowit thanks for the link! Wasn't familiar with them and their work, will have a nosey around. Looks very interesting
mollysinless@Timo_Micro @jalefkowit Politics can generate more engagement than any singer, it makes sense that they are out of the picture.
How many haters can Talylor Swift have? A lot more than what we may think, but compare it with a engagement bait post from Elon Musk. He has a huge following but also a huge percentage of the twitter users hate him with passion.
How many haters can Talylor Swift have? A lot more than what we may think, but compare it with a engagement bait post from Elon Musk. He has a huge following but also a huge percentage of the twitter users hate him with passion.
mtc_uk@jalefkowit It just is so utterly typical that the US managed to get it backwards and is the only place on the planet where there political ‘right’ is coded as red and the ‘left’ as blue. Never fails to trip me up.
Dimimore@jalefkowit wait, reps against Trump are left-leaning?
o Fedello 🦜@DimitriFayolle @jalefkowit well, having in mind how the americal political spectrum is...
Dźwiedziu@fedello
This must be an old graph to show Tories only slightly right and Labour left …at all \s
FediThing 
Nate Silver thinks "Russia Today" is neutral? 🤮
It's the mouthpiece of a totalitarian dictator.
Poujol 𝖱𝗈𝗌𝗍 ✅In France we even have a #law that theoricaly forbids many admnistrations & public services/ servants from using those #centralized / foreign / closed-source #plateforms.
> [They] ensure that their information systems remain under control, sustainable and independent.
Official source : https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/loda/article_lc/LEGIARTI000033205068
slyborg@jalefkowit It’s not just that, if you aren’t red-coded the algo will just prevent you from getting widespread engagement anyway.
Kim Possible 
@jalefkowit This will sound like I'm piggybacking on today's "discussion," but this was weeks ago, when I asked why a major leftist voice remained on Twitter, and I was told the whole "echo chamber" thing, despite the nazis and CSAM.
Sir Farts Alot@jalefkowit Xitter kicked me off a couple years ago for saying naughty things about the 🍊💩.
I realize now they did me a favor!
I realize now they did me a favor!
Chris Vreeland@jalefkowit Long ago in a much simpler time, We Rate Dogs would have been in the middle of that graph. 😕
Tim Chambers@jalefkowit Even Nate after writing this article hasn't left.
Lats (314 ppm)@jalefkowit these have to be related to how traffic is funnelled by the site operator
Charles J Gervasi ⚡🛡️🥥@jalefkowit I don't go to that site. A non-partisan approach would be for them to stand up their own instance of Mastodon.
Michael ☕️@jalefkowit
I had totally forgotten about Laura Loomer and Kevin Sorbo.
notsoloud@jalefkowit
The White House. Eeewwww.
The White House. Eeewwww.