More are using and lik­ing X since Musk bought it

The lat­est Ras­mussen Reports sur­vey shared with Secrets shows that it extends to his pur­chase of Twit­ter, which he renamed X.

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The polling out­fit report­ed on Wednes­day that X reg­u­lars are using the social media site more, and they’re lik­ing it bet­ter since his pur­chase and bid to tear down bar­ri­ers to free speech, espe­cial­ly to con­ser­v­a­tives.

Musk, already a cap­i­tal­ist icon with his Tes­la and SpaceX com­pa­nies, paid about $44 bil­lion for Twit­ter in 2022. He renamed it X and began tak­ing down hur­dles cre­at­ed by the firm to many con­ser­v­a­tives and even Pres­i­dent-elect Don­ald Trump.

So far, “reg­u­lar users” have liked the changes. Ras­mussen said that by a mar­gin of 43%-27%, Musk’s changes to X have “made the plat­form bet­ter.”

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And by a mar­gin of 42%-24%, those polled said that they are using it more.

While X and Twit­ter have always been used less than Face­book and oth­er social media sites, like­ly because it is focused on pol­i­tics and news more than fam­i­ly pho­tos, 40% said they use it, ver­sus 55% who don’t. That’s high­er than before Musk pur­chased it.

In recent months, as Musk has strength­ened his ties to Trump and is help­ing with the incom­ing pres­i­dent’s effort to shrink the gov­ern­ment, lib­er­als have com­plained about X. Some have even quit or joined a new, left-lean­ing com­peti­tor, Bluesky.

That par­ti­san­ship in X use and sat­is­fac­tion was cap­tured in the Ras­mussen sur­vey.

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For exam­ple, 64% of Repub­li­cans said the site has improved since Musk pur­chased it, com­pared to 29% of Democ­rats.

Also, 55% of Repub­li­cans said they use X more ver­sus just 34% of Democ­rats.