An X account called Historic Vids screwed up over the weekend and accidentally posted a video without any sound. This wouldn’t be that big of a problem except the whole “joke” of the video was the audio. In the actual video, it’s a Kazakhstani news anchor doing a tongue twister.

So you’d expect that Historic Vids’ video would have flopped without the audio. Except it didn’t. It has 30 million “views” and almost two thousand retweets. And the hundreds of replies beneath the video are all from other verified novelty accounts promoting their own content.

This has led to a bunch of people sharing the “dead internet” theory, which argues that majority of the web is actually just bots talking to each other. I don’t think that’s true for the whole web, but I am beginning to think that it is probably true for X.

/via Garbage Day

Regelmäßig teilt Elon Musk Nutzerdaten seiner Plattform X (vormals Twitter). Das Problem: er greift dafür auf immer wechselnde Metriken zurück, die von außen weder nachvollziehbar noch mit anderen Plattformen vergleichbar sind.

Auf socialmediatoday hat man sich die Zahlen einmal genauer angesehen und Vergleiche zu den veröffentlichten Zahlen der letzten Monate gemacht. Das Ergebnis: X scheint zu schrumpfen.

In essence, the top chart shows that X is either losing active users, or keeping them around for less time. Which is also true of another stat that X has shared, that it’s seeing 1.5 million new account sign-ups every day. If that’s true, then they aren’t sticking around, because the overall usage numbers are not rising in-step.

A new cybersecurity study unveiled a "gold rush" in the dark web with verified X accounts.

The preview shows up as white text on a black box in the bottom left corner of the image preview. It replaces the name of the website being linked, which has now been moved to a new line between the link preview and the buttons for reply, repost, and like.

Grok, launched this month on X, has angered conservatives by endorsing diversity. Musk says he’s trying to fix it.

Current and former Twitter employees said they never received bonuses they were promised during Elon Musk's buyout of the social media platform.

Seit der Übernahme von X/Twitter fallen die Download (-38%) und monatlichen Nutzungs-Zahlen (-15%) der Plattform.


Noch dramatischer allerdings ist, wer auf der Plattform verbleibt und die Themen setzt. Denn durch seinen Kurs unterstützt Elon Musk eine Entwicklung: konservative und rechte Meinungen werden gefördert, während liberale und linke Stimmen leiser werden.

Eine Analyse des Economist zeigt die Gewinne und Verluste der US-amerikanischen Parteien-Stimmen auf der Plattform – und lässt Böses für das Wahljahr 2024 erahnen.

"I'll be honest: My feelings about Elon changed a bit in the writing of this piece. I'm probably now more impressed by what he's doing, but more worried by the fact that he's the one that's been doing it", so John Oliver in dem Stück über Elon Musk.

Following a preliminary investigation, the EU thinks X may have breached its tough new Digital Services Act. A key concern of the investigation is “the dissemination of illegal content in the context of Hamas’ terrorist attacks against Israel,” the European Commission says.