> Musk has recently claimed that X now has more than 540 million "monthly users." If accurate, that means more than 25 percent of accounts on the platform follo

> Musk has recently claimed that X now has more than 540 million "monthly users." If accurate, that means more than 25 percent of accounts on the platform follow Musk. This is an obviously bad conclusion: if X and Mashable used the same conditions to consider someone an active user (thus, counted as "monthly user" or "active"), we'd expect only around 50% of Musk's followers to be active in a given month, if that. That puts the figure Musk followers contribute to monthly active users at 12%. The two definitions are certainly different, and X has better access to data, but I would expect majority of the X accounts to be pretty much inactive (heck, I created one back in the early Twitter days and only ever tweeted less than 10 times: though I was not following Musk, but I can imagine a bunch of accounts like mine who did). Also, I don't see a reason to underestimate lurkers: a bunch of changes recently (eg. visibility restricted to account holders, since retracted) may have pushed some to create lurker accounts.