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Reblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
jsrailton ("John Scott-Railton ☕") wrote:
STUDY: exodus of experts from #Twitter/ #Xitter
More than half of responding scientists cut back or left.
Result: crucial conversations fragmenting, communities dissolving.
Notable, a lot of #mastodon account opening.
Would be interesting to see usage patterns.
Attachments:
- More than half of researchers responding to a Nature survey in July* said that they were reducing or entirely stopping their use of Twitter. Many also said that they have opened accounts on other social-media platforms in the past year. Has your Twitter use changed in the past six months? It has significantly | have stopped increased using Twitter 2.8% (257 responses) 6.7% (610) l It has increased slightly It has / significantly 6% (551) decreased 24% (2,193) 9,153 respondentst It has been about It has the same decreased 37.3% (3,413) slightly 23.3% (2,129)
- Have you opened accounts on other social-media platforms in the past year? No If so, which ones? Mastodon 46.9% (1,976) LinkedIn 34.8% (1,467) Instagram 27.6% (1,161) Threads 24.9% (1,048) Facebook 22.4% (942) TikTok (Douyin) 6.6% (276) Bluesky 6% (253) Post.news 4.9% (206) WeChat = 2% (83) Snapchat 1.5% (65) Tencent QQ 0.2% (8) Sina Weibo 0.2% (7) Other 6% (251) SOOI el o it o b
