ben shapino posted:

he looks cool as hell

ben shapino posted:

he looks cool as hell

maybealabia posted:

Hell is notoriously not cool at all. Banned.

toggle posted:

hmm what a rather perverse photo

Filthy Hans posted:

16-bit Butt-Head posted:

dr_rat posted:

Cool as a cucumber

Cucumber are still cool right???

ELTON JOHN posted:

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1708197938969887018

all my kids are here gaming with me, just out of frame

Elman posted:

toggle posted:

hmm what a rather perverse photo

Shageletic posted:

Thanks I took this one.

Not sure what I'm supposed to do with the app tho lol

Panfilo posted:

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1708170681123561626?t=__6VMQ2CasaiN9npVZeAiA&s=19

Invalid Validation posted:

Imagine being a billionaire and still looking that fuckin stupid.

Glumwheels posted:

Highlighting why Wyoming should not have equal representation since no one lives there

Panfilo posted:

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1708170681123561626?t=__6VMQ2CasaiN9npVZeAiA&s=19

Glumwheels posted:

Highlighting why Wyoming should not have equal representation since no one lives there

fish and chips and dip posted:

Oh poo poo, I'm suddenly in C-SPAM

*clears throat*

The holodomor didn't happen, but they all actually totally deserved it

Stalin is so UwU

All the Uyghurs were totally asking for it

They're not concentration camps, they're reeducation camps

Russia is right to rape and massacre Ukrainians because America bad

Actually it's not imperialism if *my guys* are doing it


Phew! I think I'm fitting in!

Now back to posting about Elon Musk.

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16-bit Butt-Head posted:

free him

Panfilo posted:

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1708170681123561626?t=__6VMQ2CasaiN9npVZeAiA&s=19

Seth Pecksniff posted:

No don't

DeeplyConcerned posted:

what y'all don't get is that Elon is accurate even when shooting from the hip and doesn't need sites. It's pure badassery.

clean ayers act posted:

im confused by what part is unsustainable.
what happens if it keeps happening

toggle posted:

hmm what a rather perverse photo

16-bit Butt-Head posted:

the lowest level of hell is cold. unbanned

clean ayers act posted:

im confused by what part is unsustainable.
what happens if it keeps happening

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But… even more notably, Elon Musk may have accidentally revealed how much exTwitter usage had dropped himself — mainly by hoping that people won’t notice how he changed the metrics being used. You see, at the same time that Elon was talking about potentially putting exTwitter behind a paywall, he also claimed that he site now has 550 million users who generate “100 million to 200 million posts per day.”

During the livestream, Musk also divulged some new metrics from X, saying it now has 550 million “monthly users,” who generate 100 million to 200 million posts per day.

Some people took that to mean that his running of exTwitter was a success, since when he took it over, the ex-Twitter (as opposed to exTwitter) management were reporting 237.8 million users. But, that’s wrong. The two things are being measured very differently, and when you break it down, Musk seems to be admitting a pretty big drop in exTwitter usage.

The 237.8 million was “mDAU” or monetizable daily active users and the first two words there are important in how Musk’s number and old Twitter’s numbers are different. As we explained (and which Musk never seemed to understand), mDAU was actually a much more conservative estimate on users, because it excluded anyone they could not monetize (meaning bots, some foreign countries, etc.). The whole point of mDAU was to be more accurate in telling advertisers how large the potential audience reach is.

Second, Twitter’s number is daily active users. Musk’s number was monthly active users. DAU/MAU ratios are actually a useful tool in determining just how sticky an app is (basically it’s looking at what percentage of your monthly users visit every day). Years ago, Sequoia Capital noted that the “industry standard” for DAU/MAU is between 10% and 20% with it being very rare for a company to be over 50%. Andrew Chen from Andreessen Horowitz has shared similar numbers, noting that if you’re DAU/MAU is 20% that’s good. And “World Class” is 50%.

Of course, this differs based on the type of app, and exTwitter is more likely to be an app that people come back to use more regularly than something like Uber or whatever. So, it seems at least somewhat likely that its DAU/MAU is somewhere closer to 50% than 20% (giving exTwitter the benefit of the doubt here!). The last stats that I found that determined a DAU/MAU for Twitter came in 2020 from The Audience Project, which put Twitter’s DAU/MAU at about 52%.

But, remember, mDAU is significantly lower than just DAU, as mDAU excludes bots and other unmonetizable accounts (remember, Musk’s big complaint was that mDAU OVER counted bots, which is why it’s hilarious that the numbers he’s now trotting out don’t even try to exclude bots). So if we assume that mDAU is 80% of DAU (which is well below Musk’s own estimate of 33% bots!), that would mean that the DAU would basically be 300 million, and if we have a 50% DAU/MAU that would put the MAU pre-Musk at around 600 million.

And now he’s bragging about… 550 million (which isn’t even in any official report, so who knows how accurate it is, given his propensity to exaggerate).

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Supporting this even further, the good folks at DataReportal do phenomenal work tracking data on social media platforms, and they’ve been tracking the market that exTwitter’s own internal tools tell advertisers regarding potential market reach. And they found… something weird.

When they looked in January, Twitter’s AdManager said that there were 556 million user accounts that could be reached via ads. In April… it said 177.2 million! DataReportal knew that was too steep a drop, and reached out to Twitter, only to see that number disappear from the AdManager tool. exTwitter re-enabled the tool later in April, again with MUCH LOWER figures on accounts: 373 million. DataReportal charted all of this, and it’s… eye opening: