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> Yet not only is Twitter not growing but it’s shrinking. Source? Musk just tweeted about a new all-time monthly user record. It's not impossible that he would

> Yet not only is Twitter not growing but it’s shrinking. Source? Musk just tweeted about a new all-time monthly user record. It's not impossible that he would lie, but my impression is not at all that Twitter is shrinking. There's a whole lot of discussion about Twitter shrinking and high profile people leaving, but they don't. Stephen king comes to mind as a big critic that threatened over and over to leave, but he hasn't. [1] https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1684978651857596429 https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1684978651857596429

LordAtlas 3y ago
You realise he tweeted a line graph without an X-axis?
dragonwriter 3y ago
> Musk just tweeted about a new all-time monthly user record. It's not impossible that he would lie On the rare occasion he makes non-trivial, falsifiable claims, its pretty common that they turn out to be other-than-accurate, yes. > but my impression is not at all that Twitter is shrinking. My impression is that the set of advertisers (not regular Blue users, though they are a different kind of advertiser paying for reach) are narrowing and moving downmarket in a way which would take truly enormous numbers of Blue users to compensate for. Whether its shrinking or not is somewhat beside the point.
- dahfizz 3y ago
  It wouldn't surprise me if Twitter revenue is down. It also wouldn't surprise me if Twitter revenue is up. Unfortunately, with it being private I don't think we'll ever know. > Whether its shrinking or not is somewhat beside the point. In a thread entirely about Twitter/threads user count, whether it's shrinking is the entire point.
rpgbr 3y ago
Half a billion users? Is Elon counting everyone who sees an embed tweet as a user?
threeseed 3y ago
> new all-time monthly user record I have been using Twitter almost since the beginning. Never have I ever seen this many bots and fake accounts on the platform. So I would be highly dubious of that user record count.
- solardev 3y ago
  Well, this is Twitter after all. Probably the average LLM posts higher quality stuff than the average user there.

LordAtlas 3y ago

You realise he tweeted a line graph without an X-axis?

dragonwriter 3y ago

> Musk just tweeted about a new all-time monthly user record. It's not impossible that he would lie On the rare occasion he makes non-trivial, falsifiable claims, its pretty common that they turn out to be other-than-accurate, yes. > but my impression is not at all that Twitter is shrinking. My impression is that the set of advertisers (not regular Blue users, though they are a different kind of advertiser paying for reach) are narrowing and moving downmarket in a way which would take truly enormous numbers of Blue users to compensate for. Whether its shrinking or not is somewhat beside the point.

dahfizz 3y ago
It wouldn't surprise me if Twitter revenue is down. It also wouldn't surprise me if Twitter revenue is up. Unfortunately, with it being private I don't think we'll ever know. > Whether its shrinking or not is somewhat beside the point. In a thread entirely about Twitter/threads user count, whether it's shrinking is the entire point.

rpgbr 3y ago

Half a billion users? Is Elon counting everyone who sees an embed tweet as a user?

threeseed 3y ago

> new all-time monthly user record I have been using Twitter almost since the beginning. Never have I ever seen this many bots and fake accounts on the platform. So I would be highly dubious of that user record count.

solardev 3y ago
Well, this is Twitter after all. Probably the average LLM posts higher quality stuff than the average user there.