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I hope they don't phase X out, because that would be a social media suicide. Orgs, public personas and projects are not average users and can't really care about personal preference or user experience, they only need to care where people are. They are there to get social media reach and just jumping out of Xitter would harm their social media presence and the project.
Is there any data on how many actual people still regularly use Twitter? I feel like you're assuming that that's where the users are, and maybe that's still true, but I don't know a single real life person who still actually uses it.
X has 600 million users, Mastodon 9-10 million. Even if you assume 2/3 of Xitter are bots, that's still 20x difference in reach. You should know that you and I are not "normal" for using Mastodon. A group of randomly picked people 9/10 will know of X/twitter, maybe 3/10 have heard of Mastodon.
You are right. It is also not "normal" to use twitter. Youtube, Facebook and WhatsApp are most widely used. But FOSS doesn't not need to be normal. It is absolutely OK to have a smaller circle of people who therefore associate more with the organisation.
Heise reports on user-traffic (in German) comparing mastodon and x: "“Twitter now only generates a third of the traffic it did three years ago.” For several weeks, the number of clicks generated by Heise via X has been lower than those generated via the decentralized Twitter alternative Mastodon. This is despite the fact that the main page “heise online” has almost 240,000 followers on X and only just under 66,000 on Mastodon."
weeps for the unserved nazis, racists, and pedophiles of X
Actually, I think in one point you are right: Don't phase out X. Because that would mean all the horrible people would go to all the alternatives and spread like viruses... So leave X there for honeypot of dumb users.