alt Hacker NewsSorry to go off-topic, but you started it... Disagreeing with Musk politically is OK, but it might be advisable to not let your hatred warp the reality...Easily searchable _facts_:
X remains a large, influential real-time news and conversation platform (~half a billion combined MAUs)
- About 550 million monthly active users across X + Grok combined as of March 2026
- Up from about 520 million in December 2025
- ~ 350 million daily posts; 1.3 billion accounts active in the prior 12 months
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ErroneousBosh • today at 5:42 PM
> X remains a large, influential real-time news and conversation platform (~half a billion combined MAUs)
Not news from anyone I want to hear about, not people I want to have a conversation with.
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They claim to have that number of MAUs.
He was complaining a lot about bots when he tried to back out of the sale. He's now built a bot into it. I find myself unable to trust his statistics, not only because of his history, but also due to what I hear from people who run advertising campaigns.
Are there any 3rd party estimates of twitter's user base/MAUs?