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Twitter's UK userbase has been absolutely decimated since Musk took over
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Decimated literally means "reduced by one tenth". So I guess you're right. A one third reduction is not "decimated". It's three times worse than that.
Yeah, I didn't consider the Latin roots. However, I purport that very few people actually mean "reduced by one tenth" when they say "decimated". As you pointed out, even the author doesn't mean that.