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X marks the drop for European users

The Register · Richard Speed · last updated

Everything is super, over at X (the social media service formerly known as Twitter), which has shed around 10 percent of its European users in the past six months.

The figures were revealed in X’s latest transparency report [PDF], which the company compiles to comply with the European Union’s Digital Services Act (DSA).

Between February 1, 2024, and July 31, 2024, the social media platform reported 105,994,838 “EU Active Recipients of the Service”.

From October 1, 2024, to March 31, 2025, that figure dropped to 94,830,300. Logged-in X users had also dropped from 67 million to just over 61 million in the same period.

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