They've just been on the front-page of all the Western media today, from the FT, to BBC to the NYTimes, they're doing quite all-right.
Meanwhile I realized today that I have genuinely forgotten the name of the Twitter clone put forward by Zuckerberg, C...something. Ah, no, I've just googled it now, it's Threads. Yeah, that project is dead in the water.
b) After its initial peak Threads started to lose users largely because of missing features e.g. web app, search, hashtags, chronological sort etc. One by one these are being added and users are slowly coming back. Meta is not going to kill Threads whilst it is providing rich behavioural data into their Instagram/Facebook ad serving.
That's not really a very useful metric, because Musk paid way too much for it in the first place, and even without that it was probably overvalued to start with (IMHO). Besides, in the end a valuation, especially for a private company like Twitter/X, is not really all that useful and just a bunch of people going "well, I'd pay this much for it, I guess..."
I don't know if Twitter is doing okay or not, but I do know this is not a good metric.
They are what investors will be looking at to decide if Twitter/X heads into bankruptcy or fights to live another day.
I cannot recall the last time the-site-formerly-known-as-twitter was in the news for positive reasons.