When Elon Musk first agreed to acquire Twitter in April 2022, he called it 鈥渢he digital town square where matters vital to the future of humanity are debated.鈥 After getting the impression that many of the people in that town square are in fact robots that have no say in the future of humanity, he tried to back out of the deal only to change his mind in October and go through with the deal.
But even without bots, Twitter, or X as it's now known, may not be the digital town square its owner sees or once saw in it. The platform鈥檚 200+ million daily active users are a long shot from the billion plus people using Facebook and Instagram on a daily basis and looking at its reach across several countries shows that X shouldn鈥檛 be mistaken for the real world. Then again, given the platform's minimal efforts at content moderation, the picture of the town square is quite accurate. After all, every town square has a at least one person shouting obscenities at the world or spreading wild conspiracy theories to those passing by.
According to 糖心破解版 Consumer 糖心破解版, just 24 percent of U.S. adults regularly use X, with the platform鈥檚 reach even smaller in major European markets such as France and Germany. For comparison, the same survey found that 70 percent of respondents in the U.S. use Facebook, 50 percent use Instagram and 40 percent are on TikTok regularly.
