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> Twitter added 1.6M daily active users this past week, another all-time high https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1594865247323660290 https://twitter.com/elonm

by user_ 4y ago

> Twitter added 1.6M daily active users this past week, another all-time high https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1594865247323660290 https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1594865247323660290

datalopers 4y ago
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.
acdha 4y ago
Want to bet that’s not unconnected to sacking the people who tried to block bots?
- user_ 4y ago
  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.
  - astrange 4y ago
    Interestingly, my reports on racist posts are being accepted much more often than they were before, so this is in fact not happening. The site was also consumed in horrific discourse for the last week (topic being "is making chili for your neighbor racist, ableist and oppressing autistic people?") so all in all it seems to behaving as usual.
  - acdha 4y ago
    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.
    - user_ 4y ago
      > A man cannot get pregnant. A man has no womb or eggs That got a Spanish politician (Francisco José Contreras) banned.
      - acdha 4y ago
        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.
- NaturalPhallacy 4y ago
  Sure. Who do you have on the inside who can publicly verify that you're correct?
  - acdha 4y ago
    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.
    - NaturalPhallacy 4y ago
      So nobody.
      - acdha 4y ago
        Not any more, no. You’ll note that I expressed this as a theory rather than a statement of fact.
        NaturalPhallacy 4y ago
        >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.
dehrmann 4y ago
Louis Rossmann said something like "there's a difference between people showing up to laugh at you vs. laugh with you."
- bebopcowboy 4y ago
kaba0 4y ago
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.

by user_ 4y ago

> Twitter added 1.6M daily active users this past week, another all-time high https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1594865247323660290 https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1594865247323660290

datalopers 4y ago

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.

acdha 4y ago

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

user_ 4y ago
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.
- astrange 4y ago
  Interestingly, my reports on racist posts are being accepted much more often than they were before, so this is in fact not happening. The site was also consumed in horrific discourse for the last week (topic being "is making chili for your neighbor racist, ableist and oppressing autistic people?") so all in all it seems to behaving as usual.
- acdha 4y ago
  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.
  - user_ 4y ago
    > A man cannot get pregnant. A man has no womb or eggs That got a Spanish politician (Francisco José Contreras) banned.
    - acdha 4y ago
      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.
NaturalPhallacy 4y ago
Sure. Who do you have on the inside who can publicly verify that you're correct?
- acdha 4y ago
  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.
  - NaturalPhallacy 4y ago
    So nobody.
    - acdha 4y ago
      Not any more, no. You’ll note that I expressed this as a theory rather than a statement of fact.
      - NaturalPhallacy 4y ago
        >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.

dehrmann 4y ago

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

bebopcowboy 4y ago

kaba0 4y ago

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.