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Twitter sees largest user exodus since Musk takeover


X users are weighing the decision to keep their followings or build them back up on alternative platforms after the election.

Each of them cited growing issues on X, including bots, partisan advertisements and harassment, which they all felt reached a tipping point when Donald Trump was elected president last week with Musk’s support. A spokesperson for X declined to provide numbers for how many people have left the platform recently, but pointed to metrics the site announced last week that the company saw 942 million posts, an all-time high. Rory Mir, an associate director of community organizing at the nonprofit Electronic Frontier Foundation, said that “X is really teaching everyone the importance of who owns the sites that we use and rely on to communicate online.”

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