This should be human usage - the user survey was done by phone.
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Yeah, and don't pretend that comparable software like Google Drive, Sharepoint or Dropbox is faster.
RSS is not gone - you can read RSS by mail and it's quite awesome. Check RSS2Email or Nachrichtensortiermaschine
Most people are not really using the OS. All they do is starting the webbrowser and that's it. They need input & sound from the OS, but that's it.
We've all seen the news about spez salary, to yeah, fuck him and check if others are also getting such salaries.
There are still local governments or police forces announcing important things via Twitter. There are still interesting and smart people posting there. There are all those "legacy" accounts which are not active anymore, but have valuable content. Nitter was the last way to read this and this is now lost.
It does work. People are distracted and are not reading every message correctly. And payment processing in the appstores is also kind of easy - so you might be able to scam a few people into subscribing and they might not notice this directly. You know that you are not checking your credit card bills in details every month. So you can get a nice revenue stream of unsuspecting customers for a few month until you've burned down every little bit of trust and user base you had
X seems to have stopped fighting against bots. So there are less people, more bots and those bots won't be banned as quickly as before.