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Re:𝕏 monthly users reach new high in 2023 by 3cats-in-a-coat on Friday July 28, 2023 @02:36PM (#36911234)
As Twitter burns down, the stats will keep getting better and better. Saw it with USSR.

Needless to say, bots are constantly registering, and rate limits forces lots of bots accounts to scrape or post, so users will always "reach new high" at any point in time. It's a bit like bragging a stock price chart is at an all time-right.

Re:𝕏 monthly users reach new high in 2023 by hrbrmstr on Friday July 28, 2023 @02:08PM (#36910836)
Well, when you force users to login at least 1/month to keep their handle/account, you're 100% going to get an inorganic and non-truthful MAU metric, especially if you define that "A" to be <=20 seconds.
Re:𝕏 monthly users reach new high in 2023 by reccanti on Friday July 28, 2023 @02:15PM (#36910939)
He also claimed hate speech was down, so I’m not sure he’s the most reliable source
Re:𝕏 monthly users reach new high in 2023 by rowanG077 on Friday July 28, 2023 @02:23PM (#36911066)
I don't use Twitter/X but why wouldn't hate speech be down?
Re:𝕏 monthly users reach new high in 2023 by sidibe on Friday July 28, 2023 @03:04PM (#36911658)
Maybe hate speech is down but it's definitely more visible. The main difference on Twitter for me is today the most visible people in any thread are, by virtue of paying for Twitter Blue, manchildren who idolize Elon. some of them are pretty bigoted

Any popular tweet is going to have their asinine takes on top, and for very popular tweets that's all you'll see.

Re:𝕏 monthly users reach new high in 2023 by lopkeny12ko on Friday July 28, 2023 @03:30PM (#36912042)
Show me a non-cherry-picked example of highly visible hate speech on Twitter. Go ahead, I'm waiting.
Re:𝕏 monthly users reach new high in 2023 by foolrush on Friday July 28, 2023 @03:34PM (#36912099)
I hope you are kidding. Tell you what, why don’t you show yourself and search for common racist language or homophobia?

https://counterhate.com/blog/fact-check-musks-claim-about-a-...

Re:𝕏 monthly users reach new high in 2023 by lopkeny12ko on Friday July 28, 2023 @03:39PM (#36912181)
This is demonstrably false, extremely biased reporting, and a cherry-picked source with a clear agenda. Hate speech is at an all time low.

https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/product/2023/freedom-o...

Re:𝕏 monthly users reach new high in 2023 by lopkeny12ko on Friday July 28, 2023 @03:44PM (#36912253)
Elon has stated repeatedly that X adheres to freedom of speech, not freedom of reach. Up until recently, X was a left-wing echo chamber. This is a classic example of MSM falsely reporting anything as non-moderate and non-left wing as "hate speech."

And this basically proves my point--you're not able to show, concretely, a non-cherry picked example of this purpoted "hate speech."

Re:𝕏 monthly users reach new high in 2023 by JimtheCoder on Friday July 28, 2023 @02:10PM (#36910867)
To be fair, X monthly users in 2022 were 0, so he's not lying...