Steve Herman"The numbers aren't working out." - EFF on why it is leaving X (the former Twitter) https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/04/eff-leaving-x
David Todd McCarty@newsguyusa Would they have stayed if their tweets performed better?
Brownian_motion@dtm @newsguyusa Yeah, had the same kinds of questions reading their posts. Glad to hear that anyone has left X but I had more questions than answers reading their reasoning
FurballsNHairballs@newsguyusa
You know it's bad when EFF jumps off rhe boat.
You know it's bad when EFF jumps off rhe boat.
Allan Svelmøe Hansen@newsguyusa so what I gather from this statement is they are okay with evil, as long as evil interact with their posts.
Administrator@svelmoe @newsguyusa Yeah; I hope the EFF doesn't think this is some sort of slam dunk, because it's not a good look that they stayed as long as they did.
Honestly, I assumed (wrongly) that the EFF had left Twitter long ago.
TheFwGuy 🇪🇺🇮🇹🇺🇸🖖@newsguyusa Really ... what they expect from a nest of fascist ?
Michael Cook@newsguyusa My lack of respect for the EFF continues.
Not because they did this. Because they stayed so long. And their objection is views, not everything else.
Boo hoo.
Urzl@newsguyusa They waited far too long but I'm glad they finally figured it out.
Narrowhouse@newsguyusa The EFF has done some great things in this world, and hopefully will do more. It however would be a mistake to think they are a big force in the "Social Media" world. That they are a hugely lagging mover to any open source platform in that area is not just evidence but an indictment on their lack of leadership. Do better EFF members.
crumbletiltskin@newsguyusa it's shameful that an org like EFF is STILL on X.
Michael Downey 
@newsguyusa Good to see @eff new leadership is starting to wake up to the moral cost of their (lack of) action.
me_valentijn@newsguyusa
They've been on the Nazi platform for this long? FFS.
They should change their name to the Electronic Futility Foundation. They sure as hell aren't near any frontiers.
John Carlsen 🇺🇸🇳🇱🇪🇺For alt text:
The Numbers Aren't Working Out
We posted to Twitter (now known as X) five to ten times a day in 2018. Those tweets garnered somewhere between 50 and 100 million impressions per month. By 2024, our 2,500 X posts generated around 2 million impressions each month. Last year, our 1,500 posts earned roughly 13 million impressions for the entire year. To put it bluntly, an X post today receives less than 3% of the views a single tweet delivered seven years ago.
We Expected More
When Elon Musk acquired Twitter in October 2022, EFF was clear about what needed fixing.
We called for:
Transparent content moderation: Publicly shared policies, clear appeals processes, and renewed commitment to the Santa Clara Principles
Real security improvements: Including genuine end-to-end encryption for direct messages
Greater user control: Giving users and third-party developers the means to control the user experience through filters and interoperability.
1/2
2/2
Twitter was never a utopia. We've criticized the platform for about as long as it's been around. Still, Twitter did deserve recognition from time to time for vociferously fighting for its users' rights. That changed. Musk fired the entire human rights team and laid off staffers in countries where the company previously fought off censorship demands from repressive regimes. Many users left. Today we're joining them.