The number of environmentalists on Twitter went into freefall in the past year

Half the people who regularly tweeted about the climate abandoned Twitter after Elon Musk took control. — AFP Relaxnews

Perhaps you’ve noticed that since the social network known as X (formerly known as Twitter) passed into the hands of Elon Musk, discussions about the environment have become increasingly rare on the platform. And there may be a logical explanation for that: almost 50% of users who were passionate about the subject have abandoned the social network in the last six months.

An "exodus." This is the term used by a team of American researchers in a study, published in Trends in Ecology & Evolution, to describe the drastic decrease in exchanges of ideas and discussions about the environment on Twitter. A change observed since Elon Musk bought the social network in October 2022, recently rebranded as "X."