Elon Musk, the CEO of Twitter Inc., claims that the number of new users signing up for the social media site is at a all-time high even as he battles a large migration of advertisers and users moving to other platforms due to worries about verification and hate speech. As of Nov. 16, signups have increased by 66% since the same week in 2021, averaging over two million per day. Musk noted this in a tweet posted late on Saturday.Additionally, he stated that user active minutes had reached a new high, averaging nearly 8 billion minutes per day over the previous seven days as of November 15u2014a 30% increase over the same week in 2016.Impersonations of hate speech have dropped as of November 13 compared to October of last year. According to Musk, the number of reported impersonations on the site increased earlier this month, both before and after the debut of Twitter Blue.With the purchase of Twitter, Musk, who also owns the rocket company SpaceX, brain-chip startup Neuralink, and tunnelling company the Boring Company, hopes to move closer to realising his vision of a everything app dubbed X.
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According to the tweet, Musk’s Twitter 2.0 The Everything App will offer functions including encrypted direct messages (DMs), longform tweets, and payments. After Musk lifted the block on tweets from former US president Donald Trump, activists are encouraging Twitter’s sponsors to make public declarations about removing their advertisements from the social media network.
Following Elon Musk’s threat that employees would have to sign up for long hours at high intensity or leave the struggling company, hundreds of Twitter employees are rumoured to have left the struggling enterprise.Early in November, the firm cut half of its personnel, eliminating teams in charge of product and engineering, communications, content curation, human rights, and machine learning ethics.
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