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EFF quits X as posts now get 3% of what tweets once got

Ellsworth Toohey
Apr 09, 2026
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In 2018, the Electronic Frontier Foundation — the San Francisco nonprofit that has been fighting for digital rights since 1990 — posted 5 to 10 times a day on Twitter and racked up 50 to 100 million impressions a month. By 2025, that same level of effort produced roughly 13 million impressions over the year. Put another way: a post on X today delivers l…

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