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Re:Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources by jfk13 on Monday April 25, 2022 @11:31AM (#31156283)
What's "a lot" of volume in the context of this claim? Do you have a source for the proportion of would-be active tweeters they block, or proportion of tweets they take down, or anything like that?
Re:Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources by nailer on Monday April 25, 2022 @01:43PM (#31158242)
Donald trump had a large amount of followers and did not threaten violence beyond his role as us commander in chief, much like his predecessors and successors have.
Re:Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources by dimitrios1 on Monday April 25, 2022 @11:38AM (#31156393)
In this case you don't even need a source. You just need to have your head out of the sand, but outside of that, you can look at all the users who have left the platform or became entirely inactive after Donald Trump was banned, then look at the surge of users the alternative Twitter platforms gained, and pretty much make a safe assumption they lost at least that. You can also take a look at Twitter's stock price in Jan 2021, where it was close to 77 dollars, and rising at the time, and compare it to the pre-Elon hype price of 39 dollars, with Goldman rating it as being closer to 30 dollars in true value.
Re:Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources by jfk13 on Monday April 25, 2022 @12:17PM (#31156973)
> you can look at all the users who have left the platform or became entirely inactive after Donald Trump was banned, then look at the surge of users the alternative Twitter platforms gained

Do you have those statistics on hand? I don't, so I was asking.

I know the stock price is substantially lower than its peak 1+ yrs ago -- it's easy to find a graph of that -- but it's not obvious to me that this is the result of Twitter's politics rather than other factors.