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Most people who threatened to quit Twitter for Mastodon haven't left

Of more than 140,000 Twitter users who announced they were moving to Mastodon, just 1.6 per cent have actually quit Elon Musk’s social media platform

By Chris Stokel-Walker

2 December 2022

Logo of Twitter changing into a Mastodon oneastodon: Logos of Twitter turning into the free and open source social networking service Mastodon.

How many people are really moving from Twitter to Mastodon?

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Only a handful of Twitter users who have threatened to leave the social network for open-source alternative Mastodon have actually deleted their Twitter accounts.

An analysis of more than 140,000 Twitter users shows that although plenty of people have said they are leaving the site, only 1.6 per cent have wholly abandoned the platform, which was bought by entrepreneur Elon Musk in late October.

“I’m not hugely surprised, because I’m one of those people that still posts on both,” says …

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