Will X Really Charge Every User? Its Revenue Growth May Hold the Answer
Elon Musk almost confirmed that soon, X will require a paid subscription in order to post on the platform. This is somet...
LinkedIn Figured It Out and Revenue is at an All-Time High Beating X and Snapchat
I've been looking at X's and Snapchat's revenue for months as they are the early adopters of charging in social media, b...
Checking In - Is Telegram's Revenue Still Growing?
Telegram is one of three apps I've been following closely since they started monetizing their free users. X and Snapchat...
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Truth Social Had a Big IPO - Are the Downloads There to Back it Up?
Truth Social, Donald Trump's social network, went public this week. This is the second social media IPO in the last few ...
Snapchat's Mobile Revenue Takes a Plunge in February
Last time I looked at Snapchat's mobile revenue it was growing at an astounding rate, far surpassing X. That was back in...
Slow but Steady - Twitter's Recovery from its Abrupt Rebranding Continued in January
When Twitter became X, downloads got cut in nearly half. That's millions of downloads that are simply not happening beca...
Bluesky is Open to All - Will it Dethrone X?
About a year ago, a new competitor to X launched in private beta. On Tuesday, this competitor emerged out of beta and is...
Reddit Wants to IPO - But Is Reddit Still Relevant?
News emerged last week that forum platform Reddit is seeking a public offering. If you've been following the news about...
Twitter's Revenue Crossed a Big Milestone in December
December is behind us which means it's time to check in on Twitter's mobile revenue, a monthly series I started back in ...
X's Mobile Revenue Grew 261% in 2023
2023 has been nothing less than chaos for Twitter, which goes by X now but all the old-timers like me just can't not cal...
Snapchat's Mobile Revenue Crossed a Big Milestone
When Snapchat's paid subscription went live I said no one would pay to be a beta tester. More than a year later, Snapcha...
Threads Is Outpacing X in Downloads Right Now
Threads, Instagram's response to Twitter (aka X, but I still call it Twitter), has seen downloads nearly double over the...
Amo Used a Proven Growth Hack and It Backfired
Social apps have a pretty quot;standardquot; growth hack that's not that user-friendly but is pretty much rocket fuel fo...
Lapse Loses Momentum as Downloads Drop 70%
Over the last few years, multiple apps have tried to take on Instagram by offering a quot;newquot; way to social media. ...
Wrapped - Was the Most Downloaded App in the US Just a Scam?
An app catapulted to the top of the App Store last week and then disappeared abruptly. Fast risers aren't new, but abrup...
X's (aka. Twitter's) Mobile Revenue Grew 829% Since Elon's Takeover
October is behind us, which means it's time to check in on X's (aka. Twitter's) mobile revenue, a monthly series I start...
Snapchat+ Takes a Big Hit in September
September wasn't the bestest of months for apps that monetize the younger crowed. I'm mainly talking about games here, b...
TikTok's Lemon8 Can't Seem to Get Traction in the US
TikTok seems like the giant that can't fail anymore. It seems to constantly be in the news for something not-so-great, y...
Is Twitter's Rebrand Losing the Platform Money?
September is behind us which means it's time to check in on X's (aka Twitter's) revenue, and unlike most of my previous ...
Telegram Turns 10 and Revenue is... Stagnating. And Instagram. And Discord.
Telegram, the messaging app that promises privacy first, has seen demand growing massively over the last few years. It a...
Bluesky Just Hit 2,000,000 App Downloads
Say what you will about Twitter/X, there's nothing else like it out there. But Bluesky is trying, and bit by bit, is gro...
Is Threads Still a Threat to X - Here are the Numbers
After being the most downloaded app in the App Store and Google Play for several days and breaking download records, Thr...
Downloads Are Down 99.8% Since Peak for This App, And It's Not Threads!
A lot of attention has been given to Threads, Meta's Twitter (aka X) clone that came and went in a social media spectacl...
Snapchat's In-App Revenue Grew Double Digits in August
Snapchat, Snap's now year-old in-app revenue stream, has hit its highest month of revenue in August, up more than 12 mon...
