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The EFF is leaving twitter, They mention the takeover by Elon Musk and a general decline of Twitter, (EFF posts got 100-million impressions per month in 2018 vs 13-million for the entire year of 2024)

#EFF #Twitter #Privacy #SocialMedia

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10.04.2026 00:22
pafurijaz (@pafurijaz@mastodon.social)

It is gratifying to see that people are leaving X; the situation now seems to be worsening compared to the time when Elon #Musk acquired #Twitter. Even back then, there was widespread panic that drove many to make a change. For a while, I kept my profile and tried following some controversial users to gain insight, but in the end I gave it up on moral grounds, not because of view counts of my tweets.. #socialmedia

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10.04.2026 00:00
theverge (@theverge@c.im)

The EFF is quitting X https://thever.ge/K8TR #Twitter-X #News #Tech

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09.04.2026 23:46
ChemicalEyeGuy (@ChemicalEyeGuy@mstdn.science)

@evacide ✅

#Twitter 👉 #Xitter 🚽, so twits still tweeting are 💩s.

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09.04.2026 20:59
remixtures (@remixtures@tldr.nettime.org)

WALLED GARDEN + PROMOTION OF DISINFORMATION:

"Big news publishers are in a strange place when it comes to X right now. Most are still posting to it (with notable exceptions like NPR and The Guardian), and they still have millions of followers. But with news business models increasingly revolving around subscriptions, publishers are focusing most of their social media efforts on sending people to their own sites. They may not see much incentive to “evolve their posting style” as Bier suggests.

I wondered, though: Is The New York Times unusual among big publishers in the “link plus sentence” tweet format? Are any major publishers moving beyond that format and seeing more engagement on X as they link less?

I used Claude to help me scrape the 200 most recent tweets from 18 large publishers’ X accounts and track the engagement (likes + comments + retweets) on each. Six of those publishers have paywalls: Bloomberg, CNN, Forbes, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post. Nine don’t: Al Jazeera English, AP, BBC1, Breitbart News, CBS News, Daily Wire, Fox News, NBC News, and Reuters. The last three accounts I looked at — Leading Report, unusual_whales, and Globe Eye News — are not news publishers, but aggregate breaking news in tweets without links. (Here, for example, is an example of a Leading Report tweet: “BREAKING: Iran has halted direct talks with the US, per WSJ.” They’re sometimes referred to as engagement-maxing accounts.

These charts make it pretty clear that links in tweets hurt engagement. The connection was so apparent in my analysis that a graph including all 18 publishers is almost unreadable: The traditional, link-loving publishers are clustered in the bottom left corner (lots of links, little engagement) in a nearly indistinguishable mass of bubbles, no matter how large their followings are."

https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/04/do-links-hurt-news-publishers-on-twitter-our-analysis-suggests-yes/

#SocialMedia #Twitter #Media #News #Journalism #OpenWeb #WalledGarden #Disinformation