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You know some bad news about Twitter just dropped when you start seeing Musk inventing new metrics like “user seconds”

https://subium.com/profile/paleofuture.bsky.social/post/3kwv35yzjqr2l

X / Twitter's user base has stopped growing under Elon Musk | Mashable

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[–] [email protected] 50 points 1 month ago (2 children)

So that's definitely biased by bots being logged in and active 24/7, right?

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 month ago (1 children)

before i was perma-banned for supporting Palestine most of my time was spent blocking porn bots which were really the only things that ever seemed to see my posts/responses anyway

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

The fact that Ecks couldn’t even stop the most basic filter evasion technique shows that they don’t want to do anything about it. They can charge more for ads by boosting user metrics

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 month ago

And it turns out you’re not Show more

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

368m estimated users would mean they are pretending they average ~1000 seconds (16 minutes) per user

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago

damn i wish i only used 16 minutes on the internet thurston

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

But they are estimating 570m users, so it's even less than that, right? Or am I too dumb to read the graphic correctly?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That's monthly active, so the daily active could potentially be much lower (idk if it actually is)

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

Oh good call, the other 2 metrics are daily, I thought they all were

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This mf STILL using that corny "I'm Iron Man but REAL!!!" profile pic?? I thought he moved on from that bit when Reddit stopped buying it 10 years behind the curve.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

nah, that's a load bearing personal fantasy. once you put it in, it's never coming out.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago (1 children)

user-seconds

Pfffft, everyone knows that the really important metrics are bit-meters and post-hertz. Everything else is just nonsense.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

meters and Hertz

This but unironically

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago

user seconds in bio

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago

Damn, 1500 man years wasted a day on Twitter

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago

Hexbear has 2 Trillion user-seconds a day!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

6.7146336351e+52 user planck time

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

Wow! That's a whopping 6.715443293E+54 units of planck time! So much!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

that’s 100M user-hours. assuming bot activity isn’t included, that’s a sad number even compared to other dying social media sites like insta and fb that have billions of active users. id like to see this stat for tiktok

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Thought the tilde were minus signs for a second. That'd be more line with expectations, like who the fuck uses twitter still?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

362 zetaquadrajintibijilinion users every zetosecond !!!