Elon Musks X lost 11 million users in the EU over the past 5 months

X’s user base in the European Union is now officially lower than it was prior to Elon Musk’s acquisition of the company.And that’s according to a new report from Elon Musk’s X (formerly Twitter, but you knew that). The social media platform now has a total of 94.8 million monthly active users in the EU.That’s a loss of roughly 11 million European users from X’s previous transparency report, as highlighted by Social Media Today.Mashable previously reported on X’s declining user base in the EU last fall. Now, we know that X’s European user base has continued to drop. In 2022, before Musk acquired the social media platform, the company had more than 100 million users in Europe.How do we know X’s user base is dropping in the EU?As part of the EU’s Digital Services Act (DSA), tech companies like X are required to provide content moderation transparency reports throughout the year. As a result, X is forced to share internal information, such as its monthly active user base, that it might otherwise keep private.This week, X published its April DSA transparency report, the first of 2025. The report covers October 2024 through March 2025.The latest report shows that X’s user base in the EU has declined by more than 10.5 percent since its October 2024 report, which covered the previous period between April trough September of that year.X saw the biggest decline in France with a loss of more than 2.7 million monthly active users, dropping from 20.1 million users…Elon Musks X lost 11 million users in the EU over the past 5 months