Decentralized socials haven't found a great way to generate informational bandwidth comparable to peak Twitter. Twitter demographic is thoroughly desensitized with data bandwidth and will not move to alternatives that don't offer current Twitter even though it's nowhere near the rosy peak.
Bandwidth above a certain point is actively detrimental, and that point is quite low. It's not just why we all have ADHD now but also why we can't tell reality from fiction.
Twitter has 611 million monthly active users.
More than 245 million people worldwide use Twitter daily.
64.14% of Twitter users are men, while 35.86% are Women.
Most of Twitter’s audience (36.6%) belongs to the 25-34 age group.
With 103.96 million users, the United States has the highest number of Twitter users.
Twitter users in the United States spend an average of 34 minutes and 6 seconds daily.
Twitter generated a revenue of $744 million in the first half of 2024.
Those don't look like great numbers, both in each numbers itself as choice of numbers to me - those means US fraction is declining, women is likely now majority, userbase is aging, etc. Time spent for US users seems to be also much worse than other countries, like hours shorter than many developed countries.
Also, my original comment was about bandwidth, and you tried to defend Twitter by user retention figures. Which, to me, somewhat implies that Twitter is not getting the UGC it wants, and the real trends on it is going opposite of directions you desire for whoever you would be.
I'm not sure what positive things to say to whoever inclined to defend the choices it makes, with what happened here. It looks like they are just getting started with the downhill ride.
> comparable to peak Twitter
This is an unnecessarily high bar. Otherwise Mastodon works fine and won't be enshittified.
It probably always was, even for Twitter itself. Peak Twitter was feeding hundreds to thousand tweets/minutes that lead to formation of its core user culture. It likely wasn't sustainable considering the official iOS app never implemented it. But expectations stay once an indulgence normalizes.