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Charged my MBP to 100% last night, unplugged the charger, closed it and went to bed. Woke up this morning, opened it up and battery was at 62%. An hour and a half of very light use later and it was at 11%!

I had a look at Activity Monitor and Twitter had a ridiculous number next to it so I shut Twitter down and charged it to 100% again. I unplugged the charger at 1.15pm and have been using it most of the time since and a little over 9 hours later, the battery is at 56%.

How can Twitter use so much power?

Macbook is a little over a week old.
 
Awfers said:
Twitter using so much power? Ask Mr. Musk...

If your MacBook is only a week old, likely it is doing updates while you are not looking?

Maybe, as a test, turn off the Wifi when you put it to sleep and see how much battery you have left the next day. I did this on a Samsung Tab running Android, battery went from 2 days to two weeks, but then again Android is know to send anything/everything you do back home to Google...
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It's set to do security updates only, but I'll give that a go. As I said, it seems to be ok now. coming up tp 10 hours and still on 53%.
 
I've seen some ridiculously high CPU usage from the bird app (!) a little while ago. Not sorted with a normal restart, so I closed down all browser tabs and all programs, did a restart and it was fine.
 
why dont you just shut it down when done with it?
 
Marc said:
How would that help?
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It won't be losing charge uselessly while not being used like in your opening post.

Quite a few applications seem to be busy even when the machine is idle, sending your data back to base or mining bitcoins for others. Might be worth monitoring background activity.
 
ancient_mariner said:
It won't be losing charge uselessly while not being used like in your opening post.

Quite a few applications seem to be busy even when the machine is idle, sending your data back to base or mining bitcoins for others. Might be worth monitoring background activity.
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I know that, but my main point is that it was draining very fast while using it.

Additionally, it was only using about 4% overnight previously so there was obviously an issue that I'd rather resolve than just shut it down. I also read somewhere that constantly shutting down and rebooting can harm the battery.
 
Marc said:
I also read somewhere that constantly shutting down and rebooting can harm the battery.
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I think I read somewhere that the world is flat. ;)

If that's true then it's a major design flaw, but that's not really important right now. Back OT, some applications simply keep phoning home ad working hard in the background when they have no legitimate reason to do so. Turning off wifi is a great way to defeat that (as is shutting down) but you should investigate to be sure there's nothing additionally malign running within Twitter. Does the application use plugins - might be worth checking those. If Twitter is an essential connection, could you access it via browser instead of allowing their malware on your computer?
 
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