Autumn Sun ☀️ on Nostr: #Twitter / "X" supposedly has over 500 million accounts, but if you subtract, say, ...

#Twitter / "X" supposedly has over 500 million accounts, but if you subtract, say, 100 million as being bots or otherwise illigetimate, and assume that every real human has at least one "burner" account, then we're down to at most 200M human users, most (~80%?) of whom are not, or barely active.

Of those that are active, a miniscule fraction are *meaningfully* active (say 1-10%), ie. Trying discuss matters of society and science or there to promote their company and products, leaving somewhere between 400.000 to 4 M meaningfully active humans, depending on how generous you wish to be.

Do the revenue and profitability calculations yourself. There's a long way up to 44 Gigabuxx even if you're being charitable and hopeful.

Elon made a very poor deal when taking over Twitter.... Even a deal with the devil you may say. Your product is burning cash, your revenue from checkmark sales and ad sales are anemic due to a generally poor value proposition, and your owner is addicted to his own product, plus your investor poor involves Saudi Arabian petty despots and Russian oligarchs. Ouch!

Raw numbers are cool until you apply scrutiny.