{"id":1754456,"date":"2022-11-29T08:57:49","date_gmt":"2022-11-29T13:57:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1754456"},"modified":"2022-11-29T08:57:55","modified_gmt":"2022-11-29T13:57:55","slug":"despite-media-hysteria-twitter-is-far-from-dying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/despite-media-hysteria-twitter-is-far-from-dying\/","title":{"rendered":"Despite Media Hysteria, Twitter Is Far From Dying"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdespite-media-hysteria-twitter-is-far-from-dying%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1754456&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>As #<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/twitter-riptwitter-elon-musk-trends-workers-flee-the-company\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">RIPTwitter trends<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/next\/2022\/11\/21\/if-twitter-dies-what-will-replace-it-from-mastodon-to-discord-here-are-some-alternatives\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">media<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/fortune.com\/2022\/11\/18\/twitter-elon-musk-hardcore-resign-layoffs-riptwitter-crash\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">are<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2022\/11\/17\/23465659\/rip-twitter-trending-elon-musk-ultimatum\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">awash<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/11\/18\/rip-twitter-trending-as-users-fear-platforms-end\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">with<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2022\/11\/18\/rip-twitter-how-to-download-twitter-archive.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">coverage<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/3740973-riptwitter-trends-as-users-await-sites-potential-collapse\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">lamenting<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.buzzfeednews.com\/article\/adeonibada\/twitter-going-down-best-tweets-and-memes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/twitter-users-tweet-eulogies-amid-outage-fears-after-employees-resign-2022-11\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">site\u2019s<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hrw.org\/the-day-in-human-rights\/2022\/11\/18\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">apparently<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/m.economictimes.com\/tech\/technology\/rip-twitter-musk-sacked-half-of-twitter-many-of-those-left-are-leaving-en-masse\/articleshow\/95598650.cms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">imminent<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sciencetech\/article-11443889\/Even-INSTAGRAM-dreading-demise-Twitter-affectionate-tweet.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">demise<\/a>, a look at the actual data on Twitter\u2019s usage suggests that the platform is far from dead. While Twitter is losing both <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2022\/11\/22\/twitter-tech-glitches-staffers-depart-elon-musk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">employees<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/news\/toxic-twitter-activists-ramp-pressure-215104648.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">advertisers<\/a>, and a few high-profile <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2022\/11\/stephen-fry-leaves-twitter-2022-goodbye-scrabble-1235167470\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">celebrities<\/a> have departed, the platform\u2019s core user base appears to be as engaged as ever \u2014 a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1595207476936413187\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">point<\/a> Elon Musk himself made recently. What do the numbers tell us?<\/p>\n<p>While Twitter no longer regularly releases official statistics on daily tweet volume, its vital statistics can be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/articles\/2022\/04\/19\/just_how_big_is_twitter_147485.html\">estimated<\/a> from its public data feeds. The timeline below shows the estimated total daily tweets (blue) and tweeting users (orange) from Jan. 1, 2012, through Nov. 8, 2022. Peaking in July 2013, Twitter\u2019s popularity slowly declined over the years, until pandemic lockdowns led to skyrocketing growth \u2014 a surge that was wiped away just six months later, when Twitter\u2019s 2020 election anti-misinformation efforts <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/articles\/2022\/04\/25\/can_social_media_combat_misinformation_and_still_grow_147514.html\">went astray<\/a>. As Musk\u2019s Twitter takeover became more likely over the last few months, daily tweet volume actually increased and has remained stable in the weeks since his acquisition.<\/p>\n<p>In the words of Mark Twain, news of Twitter\u2019s demise has been greatly exaggerated.<\/p>\n<p>It would be possible for Twitter to experience extreme churn: its user base could be leaving en masse while being replaced at the same rate by an influx of conservatives <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brookings.edu\/blog\/how-we-rise\/2022\/11\/23\/why-is-elon-musks-twitter-takeover-increasing-hate-speech\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">emboldened<\/a> by its perceived new moderation policies. But that doesn\u2019t appear to be the case. The average \u201caccount age\u201d (days since the account was created) of tweeting accounts (blue) continues to increase linearly, while the median account age (orange) remains stable. If existing users were making a massive exodus and being replaced by new users, these numbers would be plunging. Instead, they paint a picture of a stagnating site, with a dominant base of long-term users, around since the beginning, who use the platform heavily, along with a high-churn cadre of new users since the start of the pandemic who try it out and soon leave.<\/p>\n<p>It is clear that despite all the <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2022\/11\/stephen-fry-leaves-twitter-2022-goodbye-scrabble-1235167470\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">proselytizing<\/a>, there has been no concerted rush for the exits by the Twitterati.<\/p>\n<p>Even the impact of Twitter\u2019s short-lived experiment of allowing paid verification seems to have been far less serious than breathless media coverage would suggest. While a small number of high-profile <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/11\/11\/technology\/twitter-blue-fake-accounts.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">impersonations<\/a> attracted global headlines, verified tweets as a percentage of all tweets experienced a one-day peak of only around 0.7 percent of all tweets \u2014 barely up from 0.6 percent of all tweets in the past few months and right in line with the 0.7-0.75 percent of tweets for the first half of the year. Instead of the media\u2019s hyperbole of a platform deluged with paid impersonators, it seems the reality was barely a blip.<\/p>\n<p>Verified users exert an outsize role in driving the conversation on Twitter. On a typical day over the past two years, around 8 to 9 percent of all tweets are either tweets by verified users or retweets of those tweets, meaning as<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is clear that despite all the proselytizing, data prove there has been no concerted rush for the exits by the Twitterati.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1576,"featured_media":1754459,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1754456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1754456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1576"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1754456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1754456\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1754459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1754456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1754456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1754456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}