I had a Twitter list "standard stuff" where I listed the core accounts I definitely wanted to hear about. This fav list grew over the years and had 120 users in total. These were active users that in the golden era posted every day. These were the ones I wanted to read whenever possible.
I wanted to see what's the status today so I went through every account and here's the result. By "inactive" I mean users who haven't posted anything in two months or more.
- 20% have completely deleted their account (the list now has 95 users)
- 36% still post frequently
- 64% are inactive or quit using Twitter
- 30% are inactive without any reason given
- 23% of those who still post on X also have active Mastodon, Bluesky or Threads accounts
- 1% quit and moved to Bluesky
- 1% quit and moved to Mastodon
- 1% is active on Threads