X usage at all-time high, record for single day

Going by the showdead comments here when the news broke, a good chunk of that traffic is probably people trying to provoke a civil war before the identity of the shooter was revealed to be more like a boringly common school shooter than an elite antifa commando.

Thusly proving that Twitter is nothing without outrage politics to fuel it.

Football likely was also part of this.

The comments here saying "it's outrage" are wrong. I myself installed the app this weekend just to see what people were saying about the assassination attempt.

I'd have rather just stayed on HN with you folks, but I knew any mention of it was going to be censored and suppressed here (and I wasn't wrong).

I knew I could go to X to see people discussing it.

These comments reflect a thought I relayed to my friends over the weekend: the US mainstream media want Trump to be president. Why? Trump is good for their business. As we go from one crisis to another, they'll be there covering it. Good news doesn't capture viewership.

But I'm not going to be watching it. I'm done with these people.

It’s outrage and bots.

Fuck Musk.

Shots fired at legacy media! What ever happened to "major" news outlets reporting their numbers on big news days like this? I can't find any to confirm their majority.