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Elon May Have Accidentally Revealed How ExTwitter Usage Has Dropped Massively Since His Takeover

www.techdirt.com Elon May Have Accidentally Revealed How ExTwitter Usage Has Dropped Massively Since His Takeover

Over the last few months, Elon Musk and Linda Yaccarino keep trying to claim that exTwitter is actually growing and more used than ever. Yaccarino has talked about “largest usage days” without defi…

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I like how they are publicly congratulating themselves. Normally conversation about that would happen during office meeting and then if needed a PR would be released.

This sounds so desperate, and staged, almost like "please, advertisers, don't leave us, we can turn things around"
I really like exTwitter, gonna start using that name
First rule for any data scientist working under Musk...

Find numbers that make him happy. Hide/deprioritize numbers that don't make him happy.

Else you will get fired.
- Musk data scientists be like: Sir, average user daily time has increased by 300%! ignores that 90% of accounts are gone and the only ones left are unemployed 40 year old redcaps who keep talking about owning everyone now
- Where have I seen this pattern before...?
  
  Oh, right! The mass famine of the Great Leap Forward was caused by exactly this kind of thing! But ... I've seen this pattern elsewhere. Let me think...
  
  Oh, right! Literally every medium- to large-sized corporate entity I've ever worked in!
  
  There's a reason why I call corporate thinking "corporate communism".
🎶🎵 He's the worst CEO you've ever heard 🎶🎵

And let's be honest he's still CEO regardless of who this Linda person is...
An interesting read actually, and while it still has the Elon bad bias, it’s nice to have actual data to back up usage statistics instead of opinion statements.
- while it still has the Elon bad bias
  
  So does reality, I wonder what causes it.
  
  O agreed, however, just opinion pieces are redundant and not interesting to keep reading over and over. I like seeing the data that backs it up vs people just saying it’s declining.
  
  I actively avoid twitter links at this point, never have any substance anyway.
- Elon is pants on head retarded
  
  All while his fans will tell you that pants-on-head is the new cool thing to do.
- First off, Elon is bad. Calling it “Elon bad bias” is like Trump calling anyone who wants him to face trial “Trump haters.” Elon bad bias makes it sound like a) he isn’t actually bad, it’s just an opinion, and b) factual statements about Elon that describe the various ways in which he is indeed bad are just like Trump haters cherry picking the one or two not-bad-but-actually-good things he did. It’s the “fake news” of the Muskies.
  
  Second, the entire article is about why the reported numbers are obvious bullshit. He’s using made-up KPIs that can’t be compared to others in the industry or to wxTwitter’s past performance. It’s like asking how a developer is doing and being told they have the highest number of characters committed or written per second for the past seven Mondays.
  
  If he was looking at good numbers, he’d publish them. As it is estimates are that exTwitter’s worth has dropped between 2/3s and 90%. If the latter is correct, Musk has personally steered a company that was at the top of its market into utter ruin an $40B on fire just because he can’t admit a mistake.
  
  And that is one of the things that makes him bad.

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