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Re:Elon Musk's X down for users by guywithahat on Friday January 16, 2026 @01:08PM (#46649682)
Isn't X still growing? Certainly it's a lot more popular than reddit in terms of users https://seo.ai/blog/how-many-users-on-x

The X doomer posters have the same energy as Facebook doomer posters 15 years ago. I remember watching ycombinator videos talk about how, back in the day, entrepreneurs wanted to create facebook clones because "everybody hates facebook", and the X hate has the same energy in my opinion. There are still too many things like investing or journalism where you just need an X if you want to stay relevant.

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Re:Elon Musk's X down for users by hojofpodge on Friday January 16, 2026 @01:20PM (#46649859)
You say this like the Facebook gloom was wrong but I think Meta and the accumulation of other assets were an acknowledgement that fixing Facebook's decline in the important segments wasn't worthwhile.
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Re:Elon Musk's X down for users by mostlysimilar on Friday January 16, 2026 @01:21PM (#46649886)
What is "seo.ai" and how do they determine the numbers they publish? I looked and didn't find any methodology or real data, just a bunch of fluff words.
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