Oct
07
2025

LabourStart in Numbers as of 1 October 2025

What follows is a brief summary of highlights followed by the usual long list of numbers.

SUMMARY:

XTwitter feeds continue to decline.  Most or all of that can be attributed to our followers abandoning the platform for Bluesky, where our numbers continue to rise despite no concerted effort being made to grow the accounts.

News stories posted per day dropped this month.  This is an annual event as made unions in the global north reduce services and activities during the traditional holiday period.

Our other numbers remain fairly stable.

THE NUMBERS:

The first number next to each item is the current total as of today; the second number is the total as of the last report. Where one number is provided it means that there has been no change since our last report.

Lists or accounts that have shrunk are in italics.  Lists or accounts which experienced growth are in bold.

STORIES POSTED TO OUR NEWS SITE IN THE LAST MONTH:

2487-2916 (116 per day)

 

MAILING LISTS:

The lists are being rebuilt after some technical hiccups so the numbers can be expected to fluctuate considerably over the next month or two.

The top 10:

English: 86401-85750

French: 7170-7121

Spanish: 5579-5571

German: 5575-5556

Turkish: 4508-4505

Korean: 3197

Italian: 2835-2828

Russian: 2682

Norwegian: 2025-2019

Romanian:  1730

Dutch: 1437

The others:

Arabic:  768

Azerbaijani:  56

Belarusian:  299

Bulgarian: 17

Chinese: 970

Creole:  11

Czech: 58

Danish: 79

Esperanto: 189

Farsi:  164

Finnish:  439

Georgian:  176

Greek: 54

Hebrew:  261

Hindi:  80

Hungarian:  174

Indonesian:  385

Japanese: 388

Lithuanian:  62

Malaysian: 20

Polish: 964

Portuguese: 1276

Punjabi:  2

Serbian:  97

Sinhalese: 1

Slovak: 15

Swedish: 909

Tagalog: 183

Thai:  142

Ukrainian: 493

Vietnamese:  21

Internal:

Executive:  12

Interns and Past Interns:  16

LabourStart ACTIVE Correspondents: 628

LabourStart INACTIVE Correspondents:  853

LabourStart Translators:  109-106

Africa Caucus:  63

Media Contacts: 69

Donors:  961

 

BLUESKY:

No efforts were made to increase the number of followers for either account.

Global:  17307-17093

Canada English-language:  438-419

 

FLICKR:

Members:  837

Photos:  10403-10411

 

TELEGRAM:

LabourStart channel:  131-128

 

FACEBOOK PAGES/GROUPS:

No concerted effort was made in the past month to increase our numbers.

LabourStart.org page likes:  14k, details unavailable

Global Labour News and Information: 9175-9171

LabourStart UK likes:  2.1k, details unavailable

LabourStart Francophone: 620 (last post February 2021)

LabourStart-de: 489

LabourStart Brasil:  552

LabourStart Turkce:  2k, details unavailable

LabourStart TV followers: 461-465

LabourStart Vostok:  119

LabourStart Italia:  68

LabourStart Esperanto:  18

LabourStart Canada-English: 217-203

LabourStart Nepal:  7 (last post April 2017)

LabourStart Israel: CLOSED (last post 2018)

 

LINKEDIN:

No concerted effort was made in the past month to increase our numbers.

Group: 2645-2640

Page: 490-447

 

PODCASTS:

LabourStart is a member of the US-based Labor Radio / Podcast Network.

Rather than list each podcast and the numbers of times they have been downloaded we will report the three (3) podcasts that have been downloaded the most times to date.

  1. 658-653 downloads: Interview with Mark Hancock, President of the Canadian Union of Public Employees re. the union’s recently-adopted “Montreal Declaration” which was drafted in response to US President Donald Trump’s threats against Canada.
  2. 451 (new) downloads: Interview with Paul Finch, President of the British Columbia General Employees Union (BCGEU).
  3. 431-427 downloads: Interview with Carlos Ching-Hung Wang, the president of the China Steel Express Union (Taiwan).

 

X (TWITTER as-was):

No concerted effort was made in the past month to increase our numbers for these accounts.  If we wish to maintain our footprint we will have to start doing so again or the erosion of our numbers will continue.  Whether that is possible is another question given the current flight of users from the platform.

We experienced decline in all accounts except the Australian, which grew slightly.  Prior to the exodus to Bluesky all would have usually experienced slow growth without any effort on our part.  This is almost certainly the result of trade unionists closing their Twitter accounts and moving to other platforms (such as Bluesky or Mastodon).

Global English: 35851-36303

Canada English: 20479-20594

Global Portuguese: 9757-9847

Global Spanish: 10214-10247

Australia: 9297-9349

USA: 4584-4610

Canada French: 3058-3076

Russian: 50

Hebrew:  50 (last tweet 02-2021)

Italian: 472-508 (last tweet 11-2021)

Swedish: 329last tweet 2016)

Indonesia: 341 (last tweet 2015)

French: 205-224 (last tweet 2018)

German: 120 (last tweet 2018)

Japanese: 21 (last tweet 2012)

Dutch: 12 (last tweet April 2012)

Arabic: 7 (last tweet May 2012)

South Asia (English): 28 Placeholder and not yet active.

 

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