• varsock@programming.devOP
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      1 year ago

      to be fair, the original poster used the word “tanking” and he knows a thing or two about DNS. I thought “tanking” was too click-baity and toned it down :D

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        Tanking is accurate - they were the 32nd highest traffic domain and now they’re 42nd (fell even further since that screenshot was taken).

        Ten places, when you’re that close to the highest traffic domains on the internet, is massive. Twitter has gone from similar traffic to Bing to having less traffic than Spotify.

        Worse though - more than half of their losses over six months happened in the last week or two.

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          what surprised me here is how much traffic bing gets 😅 integrating with AI was a real pro move, it seems.

          Any insight into how much the reduction in traffic is just restricting API usage and actual user interaction? Surely there is a correlation in more API usage (if not just scraping) would drive more engagement?

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    Does Twitter use Cloudflare? I hate anything Elon and want him to fail, but it would be kinda crazy for the CEO of a company I use services with to broadcast an embarrassing indicator to the world that my business isn’t going well.

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    While I would love to see Twitter auguring straight into the ground, Twitter’s API changes would explain some portion of this traffic changes. I wonder if there are any other proxy measures for audience engagement as separate from basic traffic