The Cyberpress Research Team made a significant discovery with the Massive 9.4 GB of X (Formerly the Twitter) Database.
    • mecfs@lemmy.world
      394·
      5 months ago

      I have a couple thousand followers on twitter but no followers on bluesky or mastodon ahahh. It’s so hard to grow them. I post my content on all three for now.

        • mecfs@lemmy.world
          311·
          5 months ago

          Mastodon I rarely get one or two favourites. BlueskyI get either ignored or 5-10 likes. Twitter I get anywhere from 5-multiple thousand likes, but 30-100 with maybe 2-5 quality replies is the most common range. I think issue is content is too niche and bluesky/mastodon need to grow before a significant chunk of people with my illness move there.

          I wish I could leave twitter, I hate musk with a passion.

          • sabreW4K3@lazysoci.alOP
            11·
            5 months ago

            That really sucks. I’m sorry to hear that. Community support is huge, especially with rare illnesses. I’m not sure if it will be helpful, but try and search for your illness via hashtags on different mastodon servers. Sometimes things are missing from one server or another. I sadly don’t have any advice for BlueSky. But I wish you luck, everyone deserves to have a community.

          • andyburke@fedia.io
            8·
            5 months ago

            Any sense on if the Twitter engagement is real people?

            I worry with a profit motivated place like that that they’re incentivized to trick me, to make me feel like it’s a more vibrant place than it is in reality.

            • mecfs@lemmy.world
              6·
              5 months ago

              A lot of them are people I know in real life. And others are respected / “well known” members of the community who have significant contributions outside of twitter. Can’t tell if the 300 likes are all legit on a post with 300 likes. But I am fairly certain about 100 of those are because I genuinely know the people behind the account.

          • kugmo@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            4·
            5 months ago

            Fediverse has a higher ratio of mentally ill to normal people than twitter, you’ll find your audience eventually.

          • delirious_owl@discuss.online
            3·
            5 months ago

            Huh, I have the opposite. On twitter I never get traction (I assume its because I’ve never paid them $$ to promote my content) whereas I’ve gone viral and attracted press from the same content on Mastodon

            • mecfs@lemmy.world
              21·
              5 months ago

              That’s really weird. Because I obviously haven’t paid a cent to Musk either, and I’ve gone “viral” on twitter.

              I really just think it’s due to the fact there is a well established niche community of people of which I post very niche content on on twitter, so it’s rare to have a post that doesn’t do well for me. And if my post ends up more general than the niche ie. disability in general and not just my illness, it sometimes goes viral.

      • BuelldozerA
        12·
        5 months ago

        I looked up your account and you now have your first official follower on Mastadon. :)

        • JackbyDev@programming.devEnglish
          71·
          5 months ago

          You do realize that people who stopped using Twitter before whatever you specifically have a gripe with could still be affected by this, right?

  • Etterra@lemmy.world
    23·
    5 months ago

    It all happens on X, right? Wait I mean Twitter. No, X. Wait. The X formerly known as Twitter. Twix? No wait, that’s delicious candy. Well whatever, it was going to happen sooner or later, Musk’s an idiot.

    • Possibly linux@lemmy.zipEnglish
      236·
      5 months ago

      That’s unimportant. All that matters is that we hate Elon Musk and never stop talking about him

      • intensely_human@lemm.ee
        21·
        5 months ago

        I’m just about at my two minutes, so I’ll see you all tomorrow.

        Oh what? That was 40 years ago? We’re now doing 20 minutes of hate per day? Okay I’ll stick around.

  • rutrum@lm.paradisus.dayEnglish
    221·
    5 months ago

    Okay this looks big as far as data, but is there any information here that isnt (wasnt) already public? This looks like profile information. Isnt all this already available?

      • rutrum@lm.paradisus.dayEnglish
        5·
        5 months ago

        10 GB of a database table sounds like a lot of records. Of course if this contained pictures or other media then this wouldnt be much. But I dont know for certain what data was leaked.

  • fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.comEnglish
    14·
    5 months ago

    The breach, sourced from a Twitter (X) database or scrape…

    The fact that they don’t specify, and that it’s names, usernames, and email addresses, means this could all be public data.

    • Kyoyeou (Ki jəʊ juː)@slrpnk.net
      17·
      5 months ago

      Well, text is very very small. Make a Notepad doc with your username, phone number, email and your data you’d put on a social media and check the weight and then divide 9GB by it!