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[–] drdabbles@lemmy.world 16 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Declining downloads simply means a slowing of growth, whereas this is claiming a user decline. That only shows up in traffic logs, transit commits, or CDN account usage data.

[–] Palerider@feddit.uk 19 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Not necessarily.

Every time someone buys a new device they have to reinstall the app. So declining downloads could be indicitive of less users.

[–] drdabbles@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Phone replacement is a high seasonality situation. CDN usage and access logs will absolutely show whether usage has declined or not. Release an iPhone and you see a major spike in new downloads, otherwise it's probably all pretty much background noise.

My guess is everything involving Twitter has been on a decline, and the things I did know I'm not able to share.