People tweeting about climate abandoned 'toxic' Twitter after Musk takeover, study finds

The researchers said Twitter, now renamed X, had previously been the leading social media platform for environmental discussion and the decline was 'troubling'.

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 was an existential threat” to a main way of informing people who want to take climate action.