{"id":5060,"date":"2026-05-24T13:49:04","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T11:49:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=5060"},"modified":"2026-05-24T13:49:37","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T11:49:37","slug":"labourstart-in-numbers-february-march-and-april-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=5060","title":{"rendered":"LabourStart in Numbers February, March and April 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

What follows is a brief summary of highlights followed by the usual long list of numbers.<\/p>\n

SUMMARY:<\/p>\n

XTitter feeds continue to decline.\u00a0 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.<\/p>\n

News stories posted per day dropped last month.\u00a0 This is an annual event as many unions in the global north reduce services and activities during the traditional Christmas-New Year\u2019s holiday period.<\/p>\n

The recent surge in campaign requests accounts for the increases in our mailing lists.<\/p>\n

Our other numbers remain fairly stable.<\/p>\n

THE NUMBERS:<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Lists or accounts that have shrunk are in italics.\u00a0 Lists or accounts which experienced growth are in bold.<\/p>\n

STORIES POSTED TO OUR NEWS SITE IN THE LAST THREE MONTHS:<\/p>\n

February: 3013 (107 per day).<\/p>\n

March: 3306 (106 per day)<\/p>\n

April: 3219 (107 per day)<\/p>\n

MAILING LISTS:<\/p>\n

The top 10:<\/p>\n

English: 87036-86401<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong>French: 7187-7170<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong>Spanish: 5651-5579<\/strong><\/p>\n

German: 5575<\/p>\n

Turkish: 4685-4508<\/strong><\/p>\n

Korean: 3197<\/p>\n

Italian: 2845-2835<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong>Russian: 2682<\/p>\n

Norwegian: 2036-2025<\/strong><\/p>\n

Romanian:\u00a0 1730<\/p>\n

Dutch: 1587-1437<\/strong><\/p>\n

The others:<\/p>\n

Arabic:\u00a0 768<\/em><\/p>\n

Azerbaijani:\u00a0 56<\/p>\n

Belarusian:\u00a0 299<\/p>\n

Bulgarian: 17<\/p>\n

Chinese: 971-970<\/strong><\/p>\n

Creole:\u00a0 11<\/p>\n

Czech: 58<\/p>\n

Danish: 79<\/p>\n

Esperanto: 191-189<\/strong><\/p>\n

Farsi:\u00a0 164<\/p>\n

Finnish:\u00a0 439<\/p>\n

Georgian:\u00a0 181-176<\/strong><\/p>\n

Greek: 54<\/p>\n

Hebrew:\u00a0 262-261<\/strong><\/p>\n

Hindi:\u00a0 80<\/p>\n

Hungarian:\u00a0 174<\/p>\n

Indonesian:\u00a0 385<\/p>\n

Japanese: 388<\/p>\n

Lithuanian:\u00a0 62<\/p>\n

Malaysian: 20<\/p>\n

Polish: 964<\/p>\n

Portuguese: 1276<\/p>\n

Punjabi:\u00a0 2<\/p>\n

Serbian:\u00a0 97<\/p>\n

Sinhalese: 1<\/p>\n

Slovak: 15<\/p>\n

Swedish: 909<\/p>\n

Tagalog: 183<\/p>\n

Thai:\u00a0 142<\/p>\n

Ukrainian: 493<\/p>\n

Vietnamese:\u00a0 21<\/p>\n

Internal:<\/p>\n

Executive:\u00a0 12<\/p>\n

Interns and Past Interns:\u00a0 16<\/p>\n

LabourStart ACTIVE Correspondents: 628<\/p>\n

LabourStart INACTIVE Correspondents:\u00a0 853<\/p>\n

LabourStart Translators:\u00a0 109<\/p>\n

Africa Caucus:\u00a0 63<\/p>\n

Media Contacts: 69<\/p>\n

Donors:\u00a0 961<\/p>\n

BLUESKY:<\/p>\n

No efforts were made to increase the number of followers for either account.<\/p>\n

Global:\u00a0 17557-17307<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong>Canada English-language:\u00a0 456-438<\/strong><\/p>\n

FLICKR:<\/p>\n

Members:\u00a0 837<\/p>\n

Photos:\u00a0 10395-10403<\/em><\/p>\n

TELEGRAM:<\/p>\n

LabourStart channel:\u00a0 131<\/p>\n

FACEBOOK PAGES\/GROUPS:<\/p>\n

No concerted effort was made in the past month to increase our numbers.<\/p>\n

LabourStart.org page likes: \u00a014k, details unavailable<\/p>\n

Global Labour News and Information: 9220-9175<\/strong><\/p>\n

LabourStart UK likes:\u00a0 2k-2.1k, details unavailable<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/em>LabourStart Francophone: 620 (last post February 2021)<\/p>\n

LabourStart-de: 489<\/em><\/p>\n

LabourStart Brasil:\u00a0 552<\/p>\n

LabourStart Turkce:\u00a0 2k, details unavailable<\/p>\n

LabourStart TV followers: 456-461<\/em><\/p>\n

LabourStart Vostok:\u00a0 119<\/p>\n

LabourStart Italia:\u00a0 68<\/p>\n

LabourStart Esperanto:\u00a0 18<\/p>\n

LabourStart Canada-English: 229-217<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong>LabourStart Nepal:\u00a0 7 (last post April 2017)<\/p>\n

LabourStart Israel: CLOSED (last post 2018)<\/p>\n

LINKEDIN:<\/p>\n

No concerted effort was made in the past month to increase our numbers.<\/p>\n

Group 2636-2645<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/em>Page: 503-490<\/strong><\/p>\n

PODCASTS:<\/p>\n

LabourStart is a member of the US-based Labor Radio \/ Podcast Network.<\/p>\n

Rather than list each podcast and the numbers of times they have been downloaded we will report the five (5) podcasts that have been downloaded the most times to date.<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. 676 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.<\/li>\n
  2. 526 downloads: Interview with Paul Finch, President of the British Columbia General Employees Union (BCGEU) in Canada.<\/li>\n
  3. 494 downloads: USA: Interview with Shawna Bader-Blau from the Solidarity Center.<\/li>\n
  4. 452 downloads: Gen-Secs of two global union federations — Ambet Yuson from Building and Wood Workers’ International (BWI) and David Edwards from the Education International (EI) re. being blocked from entering Palestine.<\/li>\n
  5. 449 downloads: Interview with Carlos Ching-Hung Wang, the president of the China Steel Express Union (Taiwan).<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    X (TWITTER as-was):<\/p>\n

    No concerted effort was made in the past month to increase our numbers for these accounts.\u00a0 If we wish to maintain our footprint we will have to start doing so again or the erosion of our numbers will continue. \u00a0Whether that is possible is another question given the current flight of users from the platform.<\/p>\n

    We experienced decline in all accounts except the Australian, which grew slightly.\u00a0 Prior to the exodus to Bluesky all would have usually experienced slow growth without any effort on our part.\u00a0 This is almost certainly the result of trade unionists closing their Twitter accounts and moving to other platforms (such as Bluesky or Mastodon).<\/p>\n

    Global English: 35546-35851<\/em><\/p>\n

    Canada English: 20327-20479<\/em><\/p>\n

    Global Portuguese: 9698-9757<\/em><\/p>\n

    Global Spanish: 10109-10214<\/em><\/p>\n

    \u00a0<\/em>Australia: 9207-9297<\/p>\n

    USA: 4565-4584<\/em><\/p>\n

    Canada French: 3051-3058<\/em><\/p>\n

    Russian: 50<\/p>\n

    Hebrew:\u00a0 50 (last tweet 02-2021)<\/p>\n

    Italian: 472 (last tweet 11-2021)<\/p>\n

    Swedish: 329 (last tweet 2016)<\/p>\n

    Indonesia: 341 (last tweet 2015)<\/p>\n

    French: 205 (last tweet 2018)<\/p>\n

    German: 120 (last tweet 2018)<\/p>\n

    Japanese: 21 (last tweet 2012)<\/p>\n

    Dutch: 12 (last tweet April 2012)<\/p>\n

    Arabic: 7 (last tweet May 2012)<\/p>\n

    South Asia (English): 28 Placeholder and not yet active.<\/p>\n

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