Australian journalists abandon X in wake of Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover, survey shows

X has dropped two spots in one year and is now the fourth-most used professional social media site by journalists, according to research

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Australian journalists are abandoning Twitter, now called X, with professional usage of the social media site now overshadowed by Instagram and LinkedIn.

A survey of more than 800 Australian journalists found that 10% deleted or ignored their accounts professionally last year and a further 26% said they still had an X account but rarely used it for work.

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