Twitter usage last month hit 6.42 billion total visits, according to SimilarWeb, with US-based traffic up 4.18% from February. This after traffic had dipped somewhat from January's 6.3 billion visits. March 2021 traffic is about on par to Twitter's traffic in November-December 2020 and actually a touch higher than traffic in October 2020 (6.3B), right before the last US Presidential election.
Which is more or less a definitive answer to the following question that frequently came up, especially after the January 6th insurrection, when Twitter finally banned Donald Trump from the platform for inciting violence: Won't Twitter traffic collapse with Trump and all his roiling, news-grabbing tweets, not to mention all the bots amplifying those tweets, are gone?
So far, looking at the data, that doesn't seem to be the case.
Twitter is recovering. Trumpism was a tumor. Now we just need to keep the chemo going until it's all gone.
Posted by: camilia fid3lis nee Patchouli Woollahra | Tuesday, April 27, 2021 at 09:12 PM