To make certain, the dream of a decentralized Twitter-like service has been round for years. Historical past is affected by failed makes an attempt—most notably App.internet and Identi.ca. An actual competitor by no means broke out as a result of not sufficient folks had a powerful cause to go away Twitter, or a spot to go in the event that they did. Now they’ve each.
Based on Similarweb, X’s site visitors is down by almost 20%, 12 months over 12 months. One other research, by Apptopia, discovered that the variety of every day energetic customers went from 141 million to 120 million. In the meantime, decentralized companies like Mastodon, Bluesky, and a few Nostr purchasers have surged in recognition.
But it surely’s Threads, from Meta, that’s been the large winner. Meta disclosed in September that Threads already had almost 100 million month-to-month customers. (As of press time, Threads has not but carried out ActivityPub, however it guarantees to take action.) Nerd favourite Mastodon is a distant second at 1.5 million energetic customers however is rising, whereas the nonetheless invite-only Bluesky, which runs on the AT Protocol, is at 2 million.
And naturally, the true Twitter killer? That’s Elon Musk.
