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by jaynetics 370 days ago
That difference in spike sizes is interesting.

I guess hardly anyone outside the US uses Truth Social, so that alone could perhaps explain the different impact of a US event on traffic. Or is there also a lack of organic baseline activity on Truth Social, and people only go there to read Trump's posts?

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Could also be post embedding because a bunch of news stories that embedded posts from both services. Presumably this would add some constant number of users to both platforms, but X is much bigger so percent wise spike is smaller.

Edit: this is also data by Cloudflare so presumably only users using their DNS service.

The baserate of either is way off. No one uses Truth Social, the percentage should be like 10_000x
I installed truth social just to check which screenshots of trump posts are true