> Twitter added 1.6M daily active users this past week, another all-time high

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1594865247323660290

Interesting how this summer all we heard from Musk was how Twitter was overflowing with bots and spam, but now that he runs the place he sure spends a lot of time bragging about all-time high "user" counts.

Want to bet that’s not unconnected to sacking the people who tried to block bots?

I'm sure it's connected, but not because of the bots.

Millions of political moderates are stopping by to see what happens when a large-scale public forum begins to tolerate freedom of speech.

Interestingly, my reports on racist posts are being accepted much more often than they were before, so this is in fact not happening.

Exactly what kind of views do you think moderates were worried about not being tolerated? Going by the definition of the term it seems unlikely that anyone, much less millions, was previously deterred by policy.

> A man cannot get pregnant. A man has no womb or eggs

That got a Spanish politician (Francisco José Contreras) banned.

He wasn’t banned (only suspended for a few hours) and that was directed at a single trans person. That last part is almost certainly the reason why he got that warning unlike the many people who have generically expressed similar beliefs.

Sure. Who do you have on the inside who can publicly verify that you're correct?

Their previous CEO said they saw on the order of 500k bot signup attempts daily, and the reports last week specifically mentioned layoffs affecting those teams and things like reporting. Put that together and I’d be careful about comparing numbers before and after this month since they’re almost certainly not measuring the same thing.

So nobody.

Not any more, no. You’ll note that I expressed this as a theory rather than a statement of fact.

>Want to bet that’s not unconnected to sacking the people who tried to block bots?

No you didn't. You made a bet and got your bluff called.

Louis Rossmann said something like "there's a difference between people showing up to laugh at you vs. laugh with you."

Catastrophe tourism. Also, contrary to Elon’s shitty graph with cut off y-axis (can we stop doing that?), that’s like a 1% change around a major American event.