Brits turn off Twitter, although teens and tweens keen on generative AI
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- News link: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2023/11/28/uk_twitter_stats_down/
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The wide-ranging report regarding internet use in the UK found that while Alphabet and Meta-owned sites remained the most visited, X had suffered a substantial fall in its total audience – down by 2.9 million in its total adult audience over the past year.
Facebook and Messenger also dropped by 1.4 million, and Pinterest fell by 1.5 million. However, TikTok saw its year-on-year adult audience in a month rise by 4.6 million.
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Things were a little less bleak for X if one considers the average daily audience in a month. Year on year, X dropped by 0.8 million, with Facebook and Messenger being the only top ten services to suffer a greater fall, down by 2.6 million.
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Facebook and Messenger also suffered the greatest drop in average time per day spent by an adult visitor, falling from 32 minutes in May 2022 to 23 minutes in May 2023.
On the other hand, X increased its time from six to 10 minutes.
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Other findings of note included Microsoft's search engine Bing adding 8 million to its reach between May 2022 and May 2023, almost half of the online adult reach. However, with a total UK reach of 21.9 million, it still trailed significantly behind its arch-rival Google, which boasted a reach of 41.3 million – 86 percent of the online adult population.
[5]X/Twitter booted out of Australia's disinformation-fighting club
[6]Game over for ByteDance's big video game studio dream?
[7]OpenAI staff threaten to leave if ousted CEO Altman is not reinstated
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All told, internet use among adults rose between May 2022 and May 2023 by eight minutes to an average of three hours 41 minutes a day online. Younger users (18-24) spent the most time online, at four hours and 36 minutes, while the 65+ age group was online the least, clocking in at two hours and 46 minutes.
An average of 7 percent of people aged 16 or over did not have access to the internet at home, a figure that rose to 18 percent for those aged 65 or over. Why? The majority were simply not interested or didn't see the point. Just over a quarter, however, cited reasons related to cost.
The rise of AI also made itself felt in the figures. Three in ten UK internet users aged 16 or over said they had used a generative AI tool, while four in five online teenagers and 40 percent of online 7 to 12-year-olds have used the services.
ChatGPT was the most used generative AI service, with 23 percent of internet users aged 16 or over saying they had used it in a June 2023 survey.
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That said, while OpenAI and ChatGPT topped the charts this time, the likes of Bing Chat and Google Bard, with 11 and 9 percent respectively, were close behind. ®
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Well played
Wot!
Elon can do no wrong. He tells no lies (all just like his mentor Donald 45)
These figures must be fake news.
It was rigged.
Stop the steal
Oh sorry, this is the UK we are talking about. We aren't quite as far down the rabbit hole of no return like those on the other side of the pond.
Please, if you read this and still use the cesspit that Twittler has become, stop right now. It adds nothing to society.
Let him lose most of the few pennies he put into the deal to buy the pit of sewage.
Re: Wot!
"Please, if you read this and still use the cesspit that Twittler has become, stop right now. It adds nothing to society."
Become? It was always a roiling tsunami of bullshit. But it does have its uses - without it, so-called journalists would have to do some actual work instead of endlessly scrolling Twitter in search of a new Who Said What On Twitter story. And, of course, now his Muskiness is in charge, Twitter itself is the journalistic gift that keeps on giving.
Re: Wot!
The old Twitter cooperated to remove hatespeech and antidemocracy. Elon delights in ignoring these demands
Re: Wot!
> The old Twitter cooperated to remove hatespeech and antidemocracy. Elon delights in ignoring these demands
[1]The Twitter Files, Part 3: The Removal of Donald Trump
[1] https://www.racket.news/p/the-twitter-files-part-3-the-removal
The Twitter files.
If you're talking bollocks, best to post AC.
[1]https://www.techdirt.com/2023/04/07/mehdi-hasan-dismantles-the-entire-foundation-of-the-twitter-files-as-matt-taibbi-stumbles-to-defend-it/
[2]https://www.techdirt.com/2023/06/05/twitter-admits-in-court-filing-elon-musk-is-simply-wrong-about-government-interference-at-twitter/
[1] https://www.techdirt.com/2023/04/07/mehdi-hasan-dismantles-the-entire-foundation-of-the-twitter-files-as-matt-taibbi-stumbles-to-defend-it/
[2] https://www.techdirt.com/2023/06/05/twitter-admits-in-court-filing-elon-musk-is-simply-wrong-about-government-interference-at-twitter/
Re: Wot!
Please, if you read this and still use the cesspit that Twittler has become, stop right now
The previous time I discussed this with someone, "anti-semitism" was brought up.
Enough.
Compare any normal twitter feed with mainstream news and tell me where the anti-semitism lives. On twitter I see countless stories of the Oct 7 victims. In mainstream media, at least in Norway, I see countless stories about poor Hamas being bombed back to the stone age. On twitter I see stories about Palestinians being warned in advance of bombs targeting Hamas. They refuse to abandon their duties as human shields and... On mainstream media all I see is pictures of the same "civilians" covered with blood.
Any anti-semitism on twitter pales in comparison to the media that made these claims.
I bet they are now changing their claims about what the problem was.
Re: Wot!
> It adds nothing to society.
A mirror.
Xitter monthly users reach new high in 2023 says Elon.
[1]Xitter monthly users reach new high in 2023 says Elon.
[1] https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1684978651857596429
world wide web
Any chance of a link to the report itself?
-A.
So... X missed the spot?