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Elon Musk's X is losing users in the U.S., UK, and EU. X's own data proves it. (mashable.com)

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

It's even worse in social media, because most users that sign up stop using it at some point.

So the product can die pretty quick if they don't generate new users, especially when they alienate old ones.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Indeed. Active users (say, used within the past month) is a much better metric.

I often wonder about this for many (especially older) YouTube channels - your channel is 15 years old, how many of your 500k subscribers actually still watch or even have active accounts?

I wonder what subscriber growth rate a typical YouTube channel needs just in order to maintain a consistent level of watchers?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago

It's only a good metric if half of them aren't bots.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Pretty sure YouTube has started unsubscribing people after long inactivity. I know some people have complained that it is difficult to follow infrequent contributors due to that now.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Is that if the channel is inactive, or the viewer's account? It seems like if you watch anything else, it's not a problem, but if you're only subscribed to 1 infrequent channel you might have that problem?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

From how it was described, I think it happens when you don’t watch something on their channel for a long time, either by the creator not uploading new stuff or the viewer not keeping up.

The problem was noticed by people trying to follow users like OnlyUseMeBlade who is unstable and has only been posting once every six months or so, but there is still a lot of interest about his potential return.