After almost 20 years on the platform, The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) He says he’s leaving x. “This is not a decision we made lightly, but it may be overdue,” the digital rights group said. “The math hasn’t worked for some time.” From the report: We posted to Twitter (now known as X) five to ten times a day in 2018. Those tweets got between 50 and 100 million impressions per month. By 2024, our 2,500 X posts generated around 2 million impressions each month. Last year, our 1,500 posts garnered approximately 13 million impressions throughout the year. To put it bluntly, post X today receives less than 3% of the views that a single tweet posted seven years ago. […]
When you log in, your rights must go with you. X is no longer where the fight takes place. The platform Musk took on was imperfect but impactful. What exists today is something else: diminished and increasingly de minimis.
The EFF faces big fights and we win. We do this by dedicating our time, skills, and the support of our members where they will make the most difference. Right now that means blue sky, Mastodon, LinkedIn, instagram, tiktok, Facebook, YouTubeand eff.org. We hope you will follow us there and continue supporting the work we do. Our work to protect digital rights is more necessary than ever and we are here to help. take back control.
