The X app (formerly Twitter) has become the top news app in Apple’s App Store, now ranking number one.
In second place is Reddit, followed by Citizen: Local Safety Alerts, Substack, CNN, the New York Times, Polymarket, Fox News, CBC News and Ground News at the 10th spot. After this is Nextdoor, Radio-Canada, The Globe and Mail, DailyWire+ and CTV News in 15th spot.
Based on this ranking in the App Store, only CBC News is a Canadian news source in the top ten in the ninth spot. Radio-Canada is 12th, the Globe and Mail is 13th and CTV News is 15th. It appears Canadians are seeking out other sources for news aside from legacy media.
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X owner Elon Musk reposted the stat on Thursday morning. This comes as X is seeing an “all-time high usage of this platform”, following the U.S. presidential election. Global user seconds on X are now at 434.1 billion.
According to data from X, the platform hit all-time record highs during the 2024 U.S. election. There were 942 million posts worldwide, hitting global all-time daily highs, while there were 373 billion seconds spent on the X mobile app, another global all-time daily high. New user sign-ups on Election Day saw a 15.5% lift, with a 43% sign-up lift during vote counting hours.
It will work out well
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 8, 2024
X CEO Linda Yaccarino called this a “massive victory for free speech”. Typically, breaking news hits X first by citizen journalists, before it reaches the mainstream media.
Musk worked alongside President Donald Trump to support the latter’s election win, which was congratulated by tech leaders such as Apple CEO Tim Cook. As for Canada? Musk waded into our politics, when he said Prime Minister Justin Trudeau “will be gone in the upcoming election,” responding to a user’s plea for change in Canada.
Recently, the X app for Mac was crashing on macOS, but this has been fixed with the latest app update and in macOS 15.1.
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Gross. That's pretty disheartening. I thought Canadians were smarter.
They are, and, it is time for our PM to take a bow and move on.
What does that have to do with supporting a white supremacist social media platform? I mean yes, we're going to elect the Con party, so we're kind of like the USA then? Whatever.
The platform has definitely devolved into a petri dish of online trolls, hate, and anger. I recently dropped the platform because it was offering me too many right leaning political posts rather than my own personal interests like it used to be.
Not sure what makes it a "white supremacist social media platform", and by your reply to me, it would be safe to say you don't like a differing opinion from your own.
Stay in your safe space echo chamber.
Not sure what makes it a "white supremacist social media platform"??? you accusing him of being inside an echo chamber is so hilarious, when your head is stuck up Elons behind.