After Elon Musk Took Over Twitter, Popularity of ‘X’ Is Going Down: Report – News18

In September, X’s (previously Twitter) visitors dropped from 6.4 billion to five.8 billion, a loss of 10%, based on new SimilarWeb knowledge. X has now dropped to seventh place on the worldwide rating, behind Instagram. Of the 176 nations that visited Twitter in September, 83% noticed a month-on-month decline in visits. Traffic to X (previously Twitter) plummeted by 600 million, from 6.4 billion to five.8 billion visits in September, new figures present.

“SimilarWeb traffic shows that Twitter is quickly losing traffic and has already slipped in global rankings. Since Musk took over, its popularity appears to be declining. It is staggering to see traffic drop from hundreds of countries, and it could well be Twitter’s behind-the-scenes efforts to combat bots. However, as Musk has said recently, the 1$ charge may be the ‘only way to fight bots,’ it looks more likely that users are switching off from the platform”,” spokesperson at Venture Smarter.

Analysis of SimilarWeb knowledge reveals that 5.8 billion customers visited the social community in September 2023. Visits have plummeted by 10% in comparison with August, from 6.4 billion.

The evaluation by Venture Smarter reveals that X has now dropped to seventh place in U.S. rankings behind Instagram. Further evaluation reveals of the 176 nations that accessed Twitter in September, over 4-fifths (83%) noticed a decline in month-over-month visitors to the web site.

Google knowledge reveals international searches for Twitter have dropped since Elon Musk’s takeover in September 2022, down from 14 million month-to-month searches to 11 million a 12 months later, the bottom since November 2018.

Elon Musk, X’s CEO, introduced a plan to cost new customers $1 per 12 months to entry the platform to fight faux bot accounts, at the moment being trialled in two nations.