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X adds "Formerly Twitter" to App Store listing as app plunges in the charts

Ever since Elon Musk changed the platform's name to X, the social media app's downloads have continued to fall.
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X adds "Formerly Twitter" to App Store listing as app plunges in the charts​

Ever since Elon Musk changed the platform's name to X, the social media app's downloads have continued to fall.
By Matt Binder on September 22, 2023


X in App Store

X is now referencing Twitter in its Apple App Store listing after the app dropped in the rankings. Credit: Sheldon Cooper/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images
Searching for Twitter in Apple's App Store, but can't find it? You're not alone!

Just this week, X dropped the bizarre "Blaze your glory!" slogan that appeared alongside the app's name in Apple's App Store. The Musk-created phrase took up valuable real estate, being one of the first things App Store visitors would see about the X app while telling them literally nothing about what the app is or does.

X App Store listing

Here's how the X app now looks on Apple's App Store charts with the new "Formerly Twitter" tagline. Credit: Mashable screenshot
In its place, Musk's company has added something much more straightforward — and likely much better at attracting downloads. The tagline on the X app listing on the App Store now simply says "Formerly Twitter."

Elon Musk's social media platform, X, has been tanking in Apple's App Store rankings ever since he dropped the Twitter branding over the summer. One researcher found that drop in mobile downloads was immediate for X, starting the very same day that the app changed its name from "Twitter" to "X" in the App Store. From there, the X app continued on a downward spiral, falling more than 30 places in the "Top Downloaded" category, far and away from competing social media apps like TikTok and WhatsApp.

Old X app listing

Here's how the X app previously looked on the App Store with the "Blaze your glory!" slogan. Credit: Mashable screenshot
Musk had been adamant about dropping all Twitter references – from the iconic blue bird logo to globally used terminology like "tweets" and "retweets" – as soon as he announced the name change. The changeover has been sloppy, with more technical changes, like swapping the Twitter domain name for X.com, still not running as of this writing. However, Musk was able to get the Twitter-to-X name change through Apple's moderation process, which previously barred apps from using one-letter names.

However, even though the iOS app officially became X on July 31, a new poll released last week found that a whopping 69 percent of users prefer the name "Twitter" to "X" and still refer to the platform as such. Naturally, if users are calling it Twitter, that's likely how they're searching for it, too.

As mentioned, X has been plummeting in the App Store rankings and downloads, so we'll keep a close eye on how the company intends to rectify its precarious current standing. X nixing its "Blaze your glory!" tagline for "Formerly Twitter" seems like a good first step in addressing its sudden overzealous, sweeping changes that clearly aren't resonating with users.
 
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United States Daily Active users on threads is down to 1.1 Milly....:picard:






"X had an average of 21 million daily active users in the U.S. in the first half of September, down from around 22 million in July but a slight uptick from 20 million in the last week of August, according to GWS Magnify, which is collecting data from U.S. mobile users.

Meanwhile, Threads’ daily active users have evaporated by two-thirds since the social-media platform’s July debut, down to 1.1 million in mid-September from 3.4 million."


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Twitter and Threads users are spending less time on those services

X had an average of 21 million daily active users in the U.S. in the first half of September, down from around 22 million in July but a slight uptick from 20...
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bnew said:
mashable.com

X adds "Formerly Twitter" to App Store listing as app plunges in the charts

Ever since Elon Musk changed the platform's name to X, the social media app's downloads have continued to fall.
mashable.com mashable.com

X adds "Formerly Twitter" to App Store listing as app plunges in the charts​

Ever since Elon Musk changed the platform's name to X, the social media app's downloads have continued to fall.
By Matt Binder on September 22, 2023


X in App Store

X is now referencing Twitter in its Apple App Store listing after the app dropped in the rankings. Credit: Sheldon Cooper/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images
Searching for Twitter in Apple's App Store, but can't find it? You're not alone!

Just this week, X dropped the bizarre "Blaze your glory!" slogan that appeared alongside the app's name in Apple's App Store. The Musk-created phrase took up valuable real estate, being one of the first things App Store visitors would see about the X app while telling them literally nothing about what the app is or does.

X App Store listing

Here's how the X app now looks on Apple's App Store charts with the new "Formerly Twitter" tagline. Credit: Mashable screenshot
In its place, Musk's company has added something much more straightforward — and likely much better at attracting downloads. The tagline on the X app listing on the App Store now simply says "Formerly Twitter."

Elon Musk's social media platform, X, has been tanking in Apple's App Store rankings ever since he dropped the Twitter branding over the summer. One researcher found that drop in mobile downloads was immediate for X, starting the very same day that the app changed its name from "Twitter" to "X" in the App Store. From there, the X app continued on a downward spiral, falling more than 30 places in the "Top Downloaded" category, far and away from competing social media apps like TikTok and WhatsApp.

Old X app listing

Here's how the X app previously looked on the App Store with the "Blaze your glory!" slogan. Credit: Mashable screenshot
Musk had been adamant about dropping all Twitter references – from the iconic blue bird logo to globally used terminology like "tweets" and "retweets" – as soon as he announced the name change. The changeover has been sloppy, with more technical changes, like swapping the Twitter domain name for X.com, still not running as of this writing. However, Musk was able to get the Twitter-to-X name change through Apple's moderation process, which previously barred apps from using one-letter names.

However, even though the iOS app officially became X on July 31, a new poll released last week found that a whopping 69 percent of users prefer the name "Twitter" to "X" and still refer to the platform as such. Naturally, if users are calling it Twitter, that's likely how they're searching for it, too.

As mentioned, X has been plummeting in the App Store rankings and downloads, so we'll keep a close eye on how the company intends to rectify its precarious current standing. X nixing its "Blaze your glory!" tagline for "Formerly Twitter" seems like a good first step in addressing its sudden overzealous, sweeping changes that clearly aren't resonating with users.
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you truly dont live in reality :skip: all your posts make so much more sense when realized you might truly be autistic :skip:
 
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MustafaSTL said:
I like Threads. The only thing it needs is for the big platform twitter people to migrate over there and quit twitter. The people would follow. Don’t know if it’ll happen, but that’s what’s holding it back from taking off more than the tech stuff they still need to work out.
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The lack of porn is holding them back
 
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Some major brands are giving up on Threads as engagement craters:



Today, however, is painfully clear that posting to Threads is more of an exercise in hope than a realistic expectation of engagement.

For example, the Los Angeles Dodgers have 2.5 million followers on X, formerly Twitter, and 269K on Threads. This amusing tweet showing the team in costumes reached 553,000 users with 6,000 likes and 183 comments.

The same post on Threads only received a few dozen likes and seven “replies.”





As of Monday, the Los Angeles Rams hadn’t posted to Threads in three weeks.






The National Football League hasn’t posted anything in six weeks, before the start of the regular season. This is the nation’s most popular sports league, and it has completely abandoned Meta’s new platform. Even with its 1.9 million followers.





Among news publishers, the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) stopped posting to Threads 11 weeks ago, not long after the launch. CBS News hasn’t posted in five weeks.



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Some major brands are giving up on Threads as engagement craters

Hello. Is there anybody in there? While Pink Floyd could not have envisioned the internet, let alone social media, when they released Comfortably Numb in 1979, the lyrics might as well apply to Meta’s wannabe “Twitter Killer,” Threads. After quickly amassing over 100 million users during its...
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