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gopher2000

Twitter claims something like 2-300MM MAU. Which I just struggle to buy. I'd consider myself fairly well connected in a segment/industry that should be among the primary adopters of Twitter - and very very few are actually active on Twitter. Most are "active" in the sense that they click on links to Tweets.

I wonder how many unique (non-bot) users actually post on Twitter each month. I reckon that number versus MAU is going to be very asymmetric.

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MAU includes lurkers. They don't publish how many accounts actually Tweet (Xit?) in a month. I will look at Twitter once or twice a week, so I'm in that 300MAU. But I only see a few of the same people posting repeatedly.

Assuming they follow the standard social media rule, only about 40-60M of those people are Tweeting in a month, which is still a lot. And my guess is a lot of those are bot tweets.

For what it's worth, I'm an MAU. I have deleted all the old posts that I could and continue logging into the app once a week to ensure that the account does not get deleted. I linked to my account a bunch over the years and don't want it retroactively namesquatted.

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