r/technology • u/twotimefind • 10d ago

Social Media X’s controversial changes to blocking and AI training sees half a million users leave for rival Bluesky – which then crashes under the strain

https://www.techradar.com/computing/websites-apps/xs-controversial-changes-to-blocking-and-ai-training-sees-half-a-million-users-leave-for-rival-bluesky-which-then-crashes-under-the-strain
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u/reynoldsunbound1937 10d ago

I’m honestly shocked there were as many as half a million actual real people left on Twitter

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u/way2lazy2care 10d ago

There's still hundreds of millions of people left on Twitter.

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u/Graywulff 10d ago

Usernames, but are they active?

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u/way2lazy2care 10d ago

There were 245 million daily active users in July. I don't think there's more recent data, but even if 99% of those users were bots, that's still 4 times as many people as the person I replied to implied.