Alarm at exodus of climate voices on Twitter after Musk takeover

Half of regular green tweeters abandoned platform after its sale and cuts to moderation, analysis finds

Half of people regularly tweeting about the climate and nature crises abandoned Twitter after it was taken over by Elon Musk, according to new analysis.

The researchers said Twitter, now renamed X, had previously been the leading social media platform for environmental discussion and the decline was troubling". They said the exodus of environmental users on Twitter is an existential threat" to a main way of informing people who want to take climate action.