[OC] One month ago many subreddits banned all Twitter links. How large has the impact been across Reddit?

Posted by RaiderBDev

14 comments

  1. In the last 3 months almost 1 billion comments and over 100 million posts were made on Reddit. This looks at the number of comments and posts mentioning Twitter or X links, divided by the total number of comments/posts in that time frame. To adjust for popularity and number of views, I also added a line that is weighted by the number of upvotes.

    Between December 2024 and February 2025, there has been a 22% drop in comments and 33% drop in posts mentioning Twitter (41% and 60% when weighted by upvotes).

    Data visualization made with d3.js. Data collected with the Reddit API, and republished through the [Arctic Shift dataset](https://github.com/ArthurHeitmann/arctic_shift).

  2. I don’t think much changed because instead of hotlinking to Twitter people are just sending in screenshots and then linking to xcancel in comments.

  3. Reddit experience has dropped. Most links I click now go to shitty websites full of ads that I have to cancel just to click on the 𝕏 link

  4. Why only 1 number and 0 on the y-axis? Guestimating visually it looks like % of posts went from 0.3% to roughly 0.2% but it would be nice to have some demarkation lines

  5. Advertisers on Twitter are getting very shady and even porn actors are leaving.

  6. I would like to see the traffic drop in visitors to X from Reddit. That would be good stat comparing the actual traffic from then to now.

  7. Why did they ban twitter links? Why would you do that?

    EDIT: Why the downvotes? What the fuck is wrong with you people? I don’t like the guy either. But ****censorship is exactly what the Nazis and Commies do**!** I grew up in a country with censorship. It’s NOT GOOD! **There is nothing to celebrate here!**

  8. It’s also interesting how the upvote weighted trend line was on top of the raw count until the Sieg Heil.

    It suggests that with or without bans sentiment toward x in general seems to have shifted.

  9. Needa have some breath but oligarchy can only be stopped with the money

  10. I believe the actual reason for the ban is because there is too much truth being posted to x, and Reddit is an isolated island of propaganda.

  11. I still see a screenshot of a funny tweet or art posted on reddit, the ban is only based on moral high ground and does nothing but makes it harder to source anything there.

    Bluesky is a great alternative, didn’t remember when the last time I used it tho, kinda boring there.

  12. Of course, intolerant leftoids now have BlueCry to spread the hate.

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