re: #2 Dr. Matt

*womp womp*

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Twitter Traffic Reportedly ‘Tanking’ While Threads Gains 100 Million Users Without Turning ‘On Many Promotions Yet’

Not defending Twitter but I really hate graphs where they don’t show the zero on the y-axis so as to exaggerate the change (How to Lie with Statistics). Plus, in this graph the y-axis shows “rank” from 32 to 40 and, for all I know, the difference between being ranked 32nd vs 40th might be 153 users and a ham sandwich.

Linked article says -

CNBC reporter Ashley Capoot also cited data company Similarweb to declare, “web traffic to Twitter was down 5% for the first two full days Threads was generally available compared with the previous week. The company said Twitter’s web traffic is down 11% compared with the same days in 2022.”

- which is not good for Twitter but tanking seems like a strong word to describe this short-term change.