X’s daily users decline in the UK
Daily X users in the UK have dropped from 8m to 5.6m in the past year.
Written by: Annabel Wilkinson
📉 Data has shown X’s daily user figures in the UK have dropped from 8m to 5.6m in the past year. User numbers are also falling elsewhere across the globe, meaning Elon Musk is now relying on “user seconds” as a key metric to measure X’s performance.
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