Op-ed: Why the great #TwitterMigration didn’t quite pan out
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arstechnica.com
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I have no idea why they are publishing pieces like this, and it's objectively false. Mastodon had over 60,000 sign-ups in the last week, and my feed is as busy as it ever was. It went from like 4 million when I signed up less than a year ago to over twelve million now.
https://mastodon.social/@mastodonusercount
12,869,719 accounts
+411 in the last hour
+12,425 in the last day
+69,252 in the last week
Active users have gotten over their initial spike and have now levelled out several orders of magnitude larger than it was months ago.
https://mastodon.fediverse.observer/stats
Either this author has a poor grasp on statistics or is a Twitter superfan or has monied interests.
I think it's because there was a hope for wholesale migration of most/all users from Twitter to the Fediverse. Or at the very least for enough migration to make Twitter a barren landscape that would precipitate its imminent demise. Neither of those happened. Of course, neither of those are realistic outcomes either.