Re: [VOTE] Remove the links to X.com from PHP.net

> On May 19, 2026, at 6:25 am, Roman Pronskiy <roman@pronskiy.com> wrote: > > Another data point: we have actual analytics on what platforms drive > engagement to php.net. For April 2026: > > | Social Network | Visits | Share | > |----------------|-------:|-------:| > | YouTube | 5,373 | 33.66% | > | Reddit | 2,915 | 18.26% | > | X/Twitter | 2,102 | 13.17% | > | StackOverflow | 2,068 | 12.96% | > | Facebook | 2,048 | 12.83% | > | LinkedIn | 675 | 4.23% | > | Telegram | 205 | 1.28% | > | Hacker News | 166 | 1.04% | > | Vkontakte | 154 | 0.96% | > | Sourceforge | 98 | 0.61% | > | Instagram | 58 | 0.36% | > | Mastodon | 37 | 0.23% | > | Workplace | 16 | 0.10% | > | V2EX | 15 | 0.09% | > | Bluesky | 14 | 0.09% | > | Threads | 12 | 0.08% | > > Among text-based platforms suitable for project communications, X > drives more traffic than LinkedIn and Mastodon combined. An active > account would expand reach. > > That's the kind of analysis the policy RFC encourages producing going > forward: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/social-media-policy > > -Roman Thanks for the stats! An average of 70 visits a day from X doesn’t seem like a ton of engagement though? I’m reasonably sure that figures from 2021 would be much much larger. I believe that the era of town-square text social networks is over. There is no longer a single place where I can follow friends, colleagues, experts and funny people all in one place. Some of the exodus was a reaction to the Twitter acquisition, but a lot of it was just a general exhaustion from the dynamics that emerge from such systems. X still has influence in Silicon Valley due to the large number of tech execs, AI companies and researchers, who continue to post there — but I don’t think there’s much overlap in audience. Matt